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Non omnis moriar

Some things that fly there be, --

by Emily Dickinson · Explore poems

  1. Some things that fly there be, --
  2. Birds, hours, the bumble-bee:
  3. Of these no elegy.
  4.  
  5. Some things that stay there be, --
  6. Grief, hills, eternity:
  7. Nor this behooveth me.
  8.  
  9. There are, that resting, rise.
  10. Can I expound the skies?
  11. How still the riddle lies!

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