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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LIFE WE LIVE, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: This life, my friends, is just the thing; one
Last Line: Mirth, rear up and bless your native earth.
Subject(s): Life Change Events
First Line: This life, my friends, is just the thing; one
Last Line: Mirth, rear up and bless your native earth.
Subject(s): Life Change Events
THIS life, my friends, is just the thing; one day we weep, the next we sing;
today we whoop, tomorrow wail, which keeps us all from going stale. And as our
days and years advance, we never know just what will chance. Tomorrow's
mysteries are hid, and she is sitting on the lid, and what she has in her old
chest can never be by mortal guessed. And that is why this life's sublime, and
why we have so great a time. If we could in the future tread, if we could see a
year ahead, and know just what the gods will send, the spice of life would have
an end. The unexpected is the stuff that makes this planet good enough. At morn
you rise, depressed, and say, "I fear 'twill be a lonesome day, with none to
brush away my tears, or tie some tassels on my ears." And while you raise a
mournful din, your aunt and seven kids blow in, with baggage packed in trunk and
crate, to stay six months, or maybe eight. 'Tis then that you, with buoyant
mirth, rear up and bless your native earth.
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