So on a summer’s day

Waves collect, overbalance,

And fall;

Collect and fall;

And the whole world seems to be saying...

“That is all”

More and more ponderously,

Until even the heart in the body

Which lies in the sun on the beach

Says too,

That is all.

Fear no more, says the heart.

Fear no more, says the heart,

Committing its burden to some sea,

Which sighs collectively for all sorrows,

And renews, begins, collects, lets fall.

And the body alone listens

To the passing bee;

The wave breaking;

The dog barking,

Far away barking and barking.

- Virginia Woolf