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I bear a little more than I can bear.

My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where
I bear a little more than I can bear.

If you would keep your soul
From spotted sight or sound,
Live like the velvet mole;
Go burrow underground.

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover;
A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year;
The spring begins before the winter's over.

The winter will be short, the summer long,
The autumn amber-hued, sunny and hot,
Tasting of cider and of scuppernong.

I was, being human, born alone;
I am, being woman, hard beset;
I live by squeezing from a stone
The little nourishment I get.

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek
Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak,
We shall live well
we shall live very well.

I shall lie folded like a saint,
Lapped in a scented linen sheet,
On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint,
Narrow and cold and neat.

The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon.