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CCXVIII
attrib. Emily Dickinson
discovered by Alexander "Sasha" Volokh
"Hope is the incentive, the support, the condiment
of honest labor."
-- Barrow, Sermons, 1677
There is a condiment called Hope
That flavors every heart --
That lends the soul's dark cabinets
A distant whiff of mirth.
But on my spirit's spice-rack lie
The seasonings of Fear --
Affliction's bleak Oregano --
The Parsley -- of Despair --
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