TO live within a cave--it is most good; <br /> But, if God make a day, <br /> And some one come, and say, <br />'Lo! I have gather'd faggots in the wood!' <br /> E'en let him stay, <br />And light a fire, and fan a temporal mood! <br /> <br />So sit till morning! when the light is grown <br /> That he the path can read, <br /> Then bid the man God-speed! <br />His morning is not thine: yet must thou own <br />They have a cheerful warmth--those ashes on the stone.<br /><br />Thomas Edward Brown<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/salve/
