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O Life! How Pleasant Is Thy Morning, Young Fancy's Rays The Hills Adorning!
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O Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like schoolboys at th' expected warning,
To joy and play.
-- Robert Burns (1759-1796)
-- Epistle to James Smith
Related:
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing
But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!...
The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in orde
But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border....
Life! we 've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weathe
'T is hard to part when friends are dear,-- Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tea...
An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
-- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Epistle to a Young Friend...
And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did the adviser!
-- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Epistle to a Young Friend...
Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon.
-- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Epistle to a Young Friend...
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vai
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley, An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain For promised joy....
For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,-- How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
-- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- A Death in the Dese...
Th' adorning thee with so much art Is but a barb'rous skill
'T is like the pois'ning of a dart, Too apt before to kill....