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 chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.
Emily DickinsonThere is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.
Emily Dickinson