Wednesday, June 16, 2010

LET US HOPE IT NEVER BECOMES EXTINCT

hands painted with feathers and forming shadow bird
Hope is the thing with feathers
by Emily Dickinson

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.

(photo found on Footprint 2.0)

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