Salve!

By Thomas Edward Brown

1830-1897


TO live within a cave--it is most good;
         But, if God make a day,
         And some one come, and say,
'Lo! I have gather'd faggots in the wood!'
         E'en let him stay,
And light a fire, and fan a temporal mood!

So sit till morning! when the light is grown
         That he the path can read,
         Then bid the man God-speed!
His morning is not thine: yet must thou own
They have a cheerful warmth--those ashes on the stone.

DayPoems Poem No. 740
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