Emily Dickinson – CVII – THE reticent volcano keeps

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THE reticent volcano keeps
His never slumbering plan;
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man.
If nature will not tell the tale
Jehovah told to her,
Can human nature not survive
Without a listener?

 

Admonished by her buckled lips
Let every babbler be.
The only secret people keep
Is Immortality.

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