"Some things that fly there be" By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

Some things that fly there be --[1] Birds -- Hours -- the Bumblebee --[2] Of these no Elegy.[3] Some things that stay there be --[4] Grief -- Hills -- Eternity --[5] Nor this behooveth me.[6] There are that resting, rise.[7] Can I expound the skies?[8] How still the Riddle lies![9]
Poem 89 [F68] "Some things that fly there be" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

The first two stanzas appear to be a contrast with the third. Emily says that at the moment she is not concerned to write a poem about things that fly, nor is it her business to reflect on things that stay. What she would like to be able to do is to 'expound the skies' of heaven to which the dead rise, but, alas, 'how still that riddle lies!' as it waits for explanation.
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