Classic Poem

I can be of much use to you, dear comrades:
Do not turn away: make the most of me.
When the orchard is mellow with fruit do not hesitate to eat the fruit,
When the harvest field is rich with wheat do not let it rot ungathered:
Send your boats out on the seas — let them take the last chance with the storms.
When I come to you loaded and running over with joy, take me, profit by me:
Do not stand on the ceremony of untruth, do not apologize for taking what I bring:
Put me into your life just as if I belonged to you, as I do;
Take all that you need not like a beggar but like a brother
You have every right to take because I have no right to withhold:
The day has no right to keep back its sunbeams — they freely shine as they please:
The river has no right to nullify its tides — they freely flood and freely fall:
The tree has no right to refuse to blossom in season — it freely matures and freely yields:
I have no right to hoard my love — it freely gushes out of me
They who try to restrain me do not know what they are doing —
They are trying to restrain the seasons but summer follows spring forever,
They are trying to restrain the day and the night but no matter how black the sundown the dawn comes unstopped:
As well think of making nothing of the earth and the stars as make nothing of me.
If you are wise you will list me at a very high figure:
You will not ask the gentlemen and the scholars what I am worth — you will ask your heart what I am worth
You have maybe made good investments — you have turned a pretty penny on them:
I offer you a superior title — I stand ready to give you that to which all other investments would appear paltry.
What I tender you can never go short:
It dont need to be watched for fear it may be stolen,
It dont need to be clutched with miser caution for fear that giving it away will lessen its estate,
It dont need to be hid in a safe from the thief or put out at interest which robs the poor,
It dont need to be fought for man against man at the fearful cost of injustice;
No: I offer it to you without a cent and I ask no thanks:
I promise that if you take it I will be the debtor, you will not be the debtor:
I promise never to remind you whatever happens that I have made you a gift —
I promise always to remind myself that you have nobly consented to receive a gift from me:
And what I give you will see is so glorious you will wonder where I got it from —
You will look at it and look at me and wonder where I got it from,
And I will not tell you because I could not and could not tell myself
Only it is sure that you will never be sorry you took what I held out to you,
Only it is sure that I will never be sorry I poured my treasure unstintedly into your arms
Standing about in the midst of the crowd filled to the brim with what my brothers and sisters of the crowd most need:
Yes: filled and more than filled with what they most need — filled and more than filled with sorrow for their sorrows:
Why should I be backward in inviting them to help themselves with unhesitating hands?
And why should they be backward in helping themselves and taking all they have a mind to?
O my comrades! it is in me and there is plenty and more than plenty for all:
You can exchange all your crosses for this: all your crosses: all.
I can be of much use to you, dear comrades.