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"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 chillest land—
And on the strangest Sea—
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me.

Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886)

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare

* The Day Before You*

i had all but given up
on finding the one that i could fall into
on the day before you
i was ready to settle for
less than love and not much more
oh, but that was the day before you

now you're here and everything's changing
suddenly life means so much
i can't wait to wake up tomorrow
and find out this promise is true
i will never have to go back to
the day before you

in your eyes i see forever
and it makes me wish that my life never knew
the day before you
oh, but heaven knows those years without you
were shaping my heart for the day that i found you
and if you're the reason for all that i've been through
then i'm thankful for the day before you



now you're here and everything's changing
suddenly life means so much
i can't waiti to wake up tomorrow
and find out this promise is true
i will never have to go back to
the day before you


the day before you
was the last day that i ever lived alone
and i'm never going back
i'm never going back

now you're here and everything's changing
suddenly life means so much
i can't wait to wake up tomorrow
and find out this promise is true
i will never have to go back to
the day before you





Author: Matthew West