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A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell, 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocracy.

His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of noon!

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And immortaility.

Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes That deaden suffering; And then, to go to sleep; And then, if it should be The will of its Inquisitor, The liberty to die.

And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours But large enough for me.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

Where thou art, that is home.

Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- .