L’altra dia vaig trobar uns versos en un board de Pinterest d’una poeta americana que no coneixia, l’ Ellen Sturgis Hooper. I, com passa sempre quan comences a navegar, vaig descobrir el Transcendental Club, que no coneixia.
Els versos eren els dos primers d’aquest poema:
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Toil on, sad heart, courageously,
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A noonday light and truth to thee.
The Dial (July 1840)
Ellen Sturgis Hooper