| Soul take the risk with Death to be, were better than be not with Thee. |
| Beauty crowds me til I die, Beauty mercy have on me, but if I expire today - let it be in sight of thee. |
| 324 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church - I keep it, staying at Home - with a Bobolink for a chorister - and an orchard, for a dome- Some keep the Sabbath in Surplice - I just wear my Wings - and instead of tolling the Bell, for Church, our little Sexton - sings. God preaches, a noted Clergyman - and the sermon is never long, So, instead of getting to Heaven, at last - I am going, all along. |
| 288 I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - Too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know! How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a frog - To tell one's name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog! |
| EMILY DICKINSON |
| 1830 - 1886 |
| If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. |
| "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. |