"Hope" is the thing with feathers

 

"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.

 

                                       -- Emily Dickinson

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