To-day

I have no hopes, I have no fears,

Whether my dreams are gossamers

To last beyond my body’s day,

Or cobwebs to be brushed away.

Give me this life from hour to hour,

From day to day, and year to year;

This cottage with one extra room

To lodge a friend if he should come;

This garden green and small, where I

Can sit and see a great big sky.

And give me one tall shady tree,

Where, looking through the boughs, I’ll see

How the sharp leaves can cut the skies

Into a thousand small blue eyes.