THE BUSY HEART
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ow that we’ve done our best and worst, and parted,I would fill my mind with thoughts that will not rend.(O heart, I do not dare go empty-hearted)— Ti think of Love in books, Love without end ;Women with child, content ; and old men sleeping ;And wet strong ploughlands, scarred for certain grain ;And babes that weep, and so forget their weeping ;And the young heavens, forgetful after rain ;And evening hush, broken by homing wings ;And Song’s nobility, and Wisdom holy,That live, we dead. I would think of a thousand things,_ Lovely and durable, and taste them slowly,One after one, like tasting a sweet food.I have need to busy my heart with quietude. 41
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