Hope is the thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson
1830 to 1886
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"Hope" is the thing with feathers -
That perches ______ the soul -
And sings the tune without the ______ -
And never stops - at all -
And ______ - in the Gale - is heard -
And ______ must be the storm -
That could abash the ______ Bird
That kept so many warm -
I've heard ______ in the chillest land -
And on the strangest ______ -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked ______ crumb - of me.
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