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THE SKIES CAN'T KEEP THEIR SECRET! by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: In your new-fashioned world!
Subject(s): GOSSIP; NEWS;

The Skies can't keep their secret!

They tell it to the Hills -
The Hills just tell the Orchards -
And they-the Daffodils!



A Bird - by chance - that goes that way -

Soft overhears the whole -

If I should bribe the little Bird -

Who knows but she would tell?



I think I won't - however -

It's finer - not to know -

If Summer were an Axiom -

What sorcery had snow?



So keep your secret - Father!
I would not - if I could -

Know what the Sapphire Fellows, do,

In your new-fashioned world!



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