Poems — Third Series by Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd

The Reticent Volcano Keeps

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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