Elected silence

Elected silence, sing to me
and beat upon my whorled ear,
pipe me to pastures still and be
the music I care to hear.

~ Gerald Manley Hopkins

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Not knowing when the Dawn will come,
I open every Door.

~ Emily Dickinson