I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching, We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away.
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Zum Autor"To be alive──is Power."
"A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."
"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell."
"The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on."
"The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-."
"He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What libertyA loosened spirit brings!"