"With Feathers (Emily 254)"
Music by Catherine Costa (me!); words by Catherine Costa & Emily Dickinson

Verse 2:

In the darkest times you can imagine
Her message has the power to sustain
You hear it in the voices of frogs and trees and oceans
Hummingbirds and honey bees and rain. . .

They sing-
Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
and sings the tune without the words
and never stops at all.