We make our meek adjustments,  Contented with such random consolations  As the wind deposits 

How could I not?  Have seen a man walk up to a piano  and both survive.  Have turned the exterminator away. 

If “compression is the first grace of style”,  you have it.  Contractility is a virtue  as modesty is a virtue.

I know a bleeding-heart plant that has thrived  for sixty years if not more, and has never  missed a spring without rising and spreading

Grandfather      advised me:              Learn a trade