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