"Best Things dwell out of Sight"

Best Things dwell out of Sight              

 The Pearl — the Just — Our Thought.   

Most Shun the Public Air                     

Legitimate, and Rare —                        

The Capsule of the Wind                      

The Capsule of the Mind                       

  Exhibit here, as doth a Burr —             

Germ's Germ be where?                      

     —Emily Dickinson   

                

Source: Poem 1004 from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960.