The Busy Heart

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     Now 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)
     I'll 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.