unremitting action Yet never wearing out

Hope is a strange invention— 

A Patent of the Heart— 

In unremitting action 

Yet never wearing out— 

 

Of this electric Adjunct 

Not anything is known 

But its unique momentum 

Embellish all we own— 

 

[Emily Dickinson {1830-1886} '1392', from The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson]