To live content
with small means
To seek elegance
rather than luxury
And refinement
rather then fashion
To be worthy
not respectable
And wealthy
not rich
To study hard,
think quietly, talk gently and act frankly
To listen to
the stars, bird, babes, and sages with open hearts
To bear all
cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never
In a word to
let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common
This is to be
my symphony.