nunia
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作者：nunia 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
* THE pessimist
Nothing to do but work
Nothing to eat but food,
Nothing to wear but clothes
To keep one from going nude.
Nothing to breathe but air,
? Quick as flash 'tis gone;
Nowhere to fall but off,
? Nowhere to stand but on.
Nothing to comb but hair
? Nowhere to sleep but in bed.
Nothing to sweep but tears,
? Nothing to bury but dead.
Nothing to sing but songs
? Ah, well, alas! alack!
Nowhere to go but out,
? Nowhere to come but back.
Nothing to see but sights,
? Nothing to quench but thirst,
Nothing to have but what we've got;
? Thus thro'life we are cursed.
Nothing to strike but a gait;
? Everything moves that goes.
Nothing at all but commen sense
? Can ever withstand these woes.
BEN KING.
* The Ideal Husband to His Wife
We've lived for forty years, dear wife
And walked together side by side,
And you to-day are just as dear
As when you were my bride.
I've tried to make life glad for you,
One long, sweet honeymoon of joy,
A dream of marital content,
Without the least alloy.
I've smoothed all boulders from our path,
That we in peace might toil along,
But always hastening to admit
That I was right and you were wrong.
No mad diversity of creed
Has ever sundered me from thee;
For I permit you evenmore
To borrow your ideas of me,
And thus it is, through weal or woe,
Our love forevermore endures;
For I permit that you should take
My views and creeds, and make them yours.
And thus I let you have my way,
And thus in peace we toil along,
For I am wiling to admit
That I am right and you are wrong.
And when our matrimonial skiff
Strikes snags in love's meandering stream,
I lift our shallop from the rocks,
And float as in a placid dream.
And well I know our marriage bliss
While life shall last will never cease;
For I shall alway let thee do,
In generous love, just what I please.
Peace comes, and discord flies away,
Love's bright day follows hatred's night;
For I am ready to admit
That you are wrong and I am right.
SAM WALTER ROSS
作者：nunia 在 寒山小径 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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