Hope Is the Thing With Feathers

Hope is the thing with feathers --
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tune without the words --
And never stops -- at all --

And sweetest -- in the Gale is heard --
And sore must be the storm -- 
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm --

I've heard it in the chillest land --
And on the strangest Sea --
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb -- of Me.

-- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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