Says one to the other, pray, how do you do?
Very well, thank you, and, pray, how are you?
A stone is the barest fact:
But living and wonderful things
Gather to earthly occasion and act
With folded or parting wings.
Birds of the air are they,—
Our knowledge, our thought, our love,—
And the ethers in which they win their way
Are breaths of the heaven above.