Saturday, August 17, 2013

Chinese Proverb

It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

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THE SATURDAY POEM
Hope is the Thing
Emily Dickinson 1830-86

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.

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