#ehh stuff

I don't know all of it by heart, but simply just the title itself is so musical, I have to set it to music sometime. Or something.

I Was Not Made Merely For Money-Making

COINING the heart, brain, and sinew, to gold, Till we sink in the dark, on the pauper's dole, Feeling for ever, the flowerless mould, Growing about the uncrowned soul! Oh, God! oh, God! must this evermore be, The lot of the Children of Poverty? The Spring is calling from brae and bower, In the twinkling sheen of the sunny hour, Earth smiles in her golden green;

There's music below, in the diamonded leaves, There's music above, and heaven's blue bosom heaves The silvery clouds between, The boughs of the woodland are nodding in play, And wooingly beckon my spirit away— I hear the dreamy hum Of bee, in the lime-tree, and birds on the spray And they too, are calling my thinking away; But I cannot—cannot come. Visions of verdant and heart-cooling places, Will steal on my soul like a golden spring-rain, Bringing the lost light of brave, vanisht faces; Till memory blossoms with beauty again. But O, for a glimpse of the flower-laden morning, That makes the heart leap up, and knock at heaven's door O for the green lane, the green field, the green wood, To take in by heartfuls, their greenness once more: How I yearn to lie down in the cowslip-starred meadows. And nestle in leaves, and the sleep of the shadows, Where violets in beauty are waking. There, let my soul burst from its cavern of clay, To float down the warm spring, away and away: For I was not made merely for money-making.

At my wearisome task I oftentimes turn, From my bride, and my monitress, Duty, Forgetting the strife, and the wrestle of life, To talk with the spirit of Beauty. The multitude's hum, and the chinking of gold, Grow hush as the dying of clay; For on wings of rapture, with joy untold, My heart is up, and away! Glad as the bird in the tree-top chanting, Its anthem of Liberty; With its heart in its musical gratitude panting, And O, 'tis a bliss to be. Once more to drink in the balm-breathing air, Lapt in luxurious flowers— To recall again, the pleasures that were In Infancy's innocent hours. To wash the earth-stains, and the dust from the soul In nature's reviving tears, once more: To feast at her banquet, and drink from her bowl, Rich wine, for the heart's hot core. Ah, me! ah, me! it is heavenly then, And hints of the spirit-world, near alway, Are stirring, and stirred, at my heart again, Like leaves to the kiss of May. It is but a dream, yet, 'tis passing sweet, And when from its spells, my spirit is waking, Dark is my heart, and the wild tears start; For I was not made merely for money-making.

Oh, 5 things... Anything counts, right xD?

My hair, when it's cooperating <_<

The amount of patience I have

My nails *--*

I actually like the way my voice sounds... (not when singing, tho)

I guess the imaginative/creative part of my mind