The earth has many keys, by Emily Dickinson

Тональностей земли
не счесть. Где нету тем,
там есть неисследимый мыс...
Мир явлен в красоте.

А твердь - красы пример,
о ней же - речь морям...
Кузнечик ей за верх
элегий для меня.



1885

No autograph copy of this poem is known.
[Charles Anderson says that these lines are the end
of another version of poem 1068. In this second version,
lines 1-8 of poem 1068, describing the Mass sung by the
crickets, are followed by 4 lines saying how the song of
the crickets is still audible at dusk, and then by the
8 lines of poem 1775 commenting on the meaning of their song.
In poem 1775 Emily says that earth has many songs, and
it is only the ‘unknown peninsula’ of heaven which has no
songs for us. Beauty is to be found in nature. Land and sea
are both witnesses to that beauty, but the finest witness
to beauty is the elegy of the song of the cricket.]

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The earth has many keys, by Emily Dickinson

The earth has many keys.               
Where melody is not               
Is the unknown peninsula --            
Beauty is nature's fact.               

But witness for her -- land --            
And witness for her -- sea --               
The cricket is her utmost               
Of elegy to me.