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HOPE (1) by EMILY DICKINSON

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First Line: HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS
Last Line: IT ASKED A CRUMB OF ME.
Subject(s): HOPE; OPTIMISM;
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without 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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