Grateful enough

How can our minds and bodies be

Grateful enough that we have spent

Here in this generous house

This evening of content?

Each one of us has walked through storm

And fled the wolves along the road

But here the hearth is wide and warm

And for this shelter and this light

Accept, O Lord, our thanks tonight

Sara Teasdale

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What if the bridge men built goes down

What if the torrent sweeps the town

The hills are safe, the hills remain

And hills are happy in the rain;

If I can climb the hills and find

A small cottage to my mind

A lonely but a cleanly house

With shelves too bare to tempt a mouse

Whatever years remain to me

I shall live out in dignity

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Into my heart’s treasury

I slipped a coin

That time cannot take

Nor a thief purloin

Oh, better than the minting

Of a gold crowned king

Is the safe kept memory

Of a lovely thing

Sara Teasdale

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Incense yearns to disappear in scent

Scent to cling to incense

Melody seeks to fetter herself in rhythm

While rhythm flows back to melody

What drama is this between creation and destruction

Bondage is striving after freedom

And freedom seeking rest in bondage

Rabindranath Tagore

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