That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.
That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit – Life!
Such is the Force of Happiness – The Least – can lift a Ton Assisted by its stimulus –
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar requires sorest need.
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – I keep it, staying at Home – With a Bobolink for a Chorister – And an Orchard, for a Dome –
Some Days retired from the rest In soft distinction lie The Day that a Companion came Or was obliged to die
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Shame need not crouch In such an Earth as Ours – Shame – stand erect – The Universe is yours.
Saying nothing, sometimes says the Most.[to Aunt Katie]
Ruin is formal – Devil’s work Consecutive and slow – Fail in an instant, no man did Slipping – is Crash’s law.
