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 chilliest land
And
on the strangest sea;
Yet,
never, in extremity,
It
asked a crumb of me.
When I'm at a
crossroad,
I hear all
these familiar voices
nailed in my
mind;
they turn,
they roll,
they sink in
my thoughts,
never leaving.
But here you
are,
you stretch
out your left hand to me
and you give
me A push,
to jump to
the right way...