Hope is a Strange Invention

Hope is a strange invention —

A Patent of the Heart —

In unremitting action

Yet never wearing out —

Of this electric Adjunct

Not anything is known

But its unique momentum

Embellish all we own —

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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Andi Andeson April 9, 2012 - 11:33 am

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.
–Also Emily Dickenson

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