To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

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We outgrow love, like other things

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We outgrow love, like other things
And put it in the Drawer—
Till it an Antique fashion shows—
Like Costumes Grandsires wore.

poem by Emily Dickinson
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When Bells stop ringing—Church—begins

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When Bells stop ringing—Church—begins
The Positive—of Bells—
When Cogs—stop—that's Circumference—
The Ultimate—of Wheels.

poem by Emily Dickinson
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To venerate the simple days

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To venerate the simple days
Which lead the seasons by,
Needs but to remember
That from you or I,
They may take the trifle
Termed mortality!

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If Blame be my side—forfeit Me

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If Blame be my side—forfeit Me—
But doom me not to forfeit Thee—
To forfeit Thee? The very name
Is sentence from Belief—and House—

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It's such a little thing to weep

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It's such a little thing to weep—
So short a thing to sigh—
And yet—by Trades—the size of these
We men and women die!

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If What we could—were what we would

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If What we could—were what we would—
Criterion—be small—
It is the Ultimate of Talk—
The Impotence to Tell—

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Love reckons by itself—alone

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Love reckons by itself—alone—
"As large as I"—relate the Sun
To One who never felt it blaze—
Itself is all the like it has—

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Absence disembodies—so does Death

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Absence disembodies—so does Death
Hiding individuals from the Earth
Superposition helps, as well as love—
Tenderness decreases as we prove—

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Rest at Night

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Rest at Night
The Sun from shining,
Nature—and some Men—
Rest at Noon—some Men—
While Nature
And the Sun—go on—

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