Sophie P - It's only me

I think Crab my dog be the sourest-natured dog that lives. My mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear.

He is a stone, a very pebble stone, and has no more pity in him than a dog.

A cloud of witnesses. To whom? To what?
To the small fire that never leaves the sky.
To the great fire that boils the daily pot.
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To all the things we are not remembered by,
Which we remember and bless. To all the things
That will not notice when we die,
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Yet lend the passing moment words and wings.

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So fanfare for the Makers: who compose
A book of words or deeds who runs may write
As many who do run, as a family grows
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At times like sunflowers turning towards the light.
As sometimes in the blackout and the raids
One joke composed an island in the night.
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As sometimes one man’s kindness pervades
A room or house or village, as sometimes
Merely to tighten screws or sharpen blades
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Can catch a meaning, as to hear the chimes
At midnight means to share them, as one man
In old age plants an avenue of limes
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And before they bloom can smell them, before they span
The road can walk beneath the perfected arch,
The merest greenprint when the lives began
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Of those who walk there with him, as in default
Of coffee men grind acorns, as in despite
Of all assaults conscripts counter assault,
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As mothers sit up late night after night
Moulding a life, as miners day by day
Descend blind shafts, as a boy may flaunt his kite
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In an empty nonchalent sky, as anglers play
Their fish, as workers work and can take pride
In spending sweat before they draw their pay.
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As horsemen fashion horses while they ride,
As climbers climb a peak because it is there,
As life can be confirmed even in suicide:
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To make is such. Let us make. And set the weather fair.

Meine Damen und Herren, Mesdames et Messieurs, Ladies und Gentlemen - where are your troubles now? Forgotten! - I told you so…. We have no troubles here - Here life is beautiful…