Poems (Mansfield)/The Secret

by Katherine Mansfield

For works with similar titles, see The Secret.

THE SECRET

In the profoundest oceanThere is a rainbow shell,It is always there, shining most stillyUnder the greatest storm wavesAnd under the happy little wavesThat the old Greek called 'ripples of laughter.' And you listen, the rainbow shellSings—in the profoundest ocean.It is always there, singing most silently! 1912.