Hope

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"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 -
A 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 Dickson

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