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Some things that fly there be –
Birds – Hours – the Bumblebee –
Of these no Elegy.

 

Some things that stay there be –
Grief – Hills – Eternity –
Nor this behooveth me.

 

There are that resting, rise.
Can I expound the skies?
How still the Riddle lies!

Within my reach!

I could have touched!

I might have chanced that way!

Soft saturated thro′ the village –

Sauntered as soft away!

So unsuspected Violets

Within the meadows go –

Too late for striving fingers

That passed, an hour ago!