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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SECRET, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a fancy: how shall I bring it
Last Line: Known, since the world was, by scarce two or three.
Subject(s): Secrets
First Line: I have a fancy: how shall I bring it
Last Line: Known, since the world was, by scarce two or three.
Subject(s): Secrets
I HAVE a fancy: how shall I bring it
Home to all mortals wherever they be?
Say it or sing it? shoe it or wing it,
So it may outrun or outfly ME,
Merest cocoon-web whence it broke free?
Only one secret can save from disaster,
Only one magic is that of the Master:
Set it to music; give it a tune, —
Tune the brook sings you, tune the breeze brings you,
Tune the wild columbines nod to in June!
This is the secret: so simple, you see!
Easy as loving, easy as kissing,
Easy as — well, let me ponder — as missing,
Known, since the world was, by scarce two or three.
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