I have been young, and now am not too old; And I have seen the righteous forsaken, His health, his honour and his quality taken. This is not what we were formerly told. I have seen a green country, useful to the race, Knocked silly with guns and mines, its villages vanished, Even the last [...]

I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine? Yet now I think on’t, let it lie, To find it were in vain; For thou hast a thief in either eye Would steal it back again. Why should [...]

The ape, the monkey and baboon did meet, And breaking of their fast in Friday street, Two of them swore together solemnly In their three natures was a sympathy. Nay, quoth baboon, I do deny that strain: I have more knavery in me than you twain. Why, quoth the ape, I have a horse at [...]

The glitt’ring colours of the day are fled; Come, melancholy orb! that dwell’st with night, Come! and o’er earth thy wand’ring lustre shed, Thy deepest shadow, and thy softest light; To me congenial is the gloomy grove, When with faint light the sloping uplands shine; That gloom, those pensive rays alike I love, Whose sadness [...]

Peace is the need for the world today Peace is the seed which makes our life bright and gay. Today we need peace along with brotherhood To cease wars in our vast neighbourhood. Today we need peace along with love They are the keys To unlock the cage of the white dove. Today we need [...]

The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate; he finds a female, they show no haste they wait for the sympathy in their vast shy hearts slowly, slowly to rouse as they loiter along the river-beds and drink and browse and dash in panic through the brake of forest with the herd, and [...]

Some people about money they worry themselves gray But life is scarce worth living without a laugh a day For if you live without laughter how boring your life must be You are worse off than a pauper though you may be well off financially. Who could not love the sound of laughter to it [...]

$10 a gallon? For what? ‘Does that really matter now? When it approached One dollar per gallon… You should have voiced your concern then! Not when your pockets have gotten thin. And deepened to hold more lint! You want to make cents? Put these sunglasses on. Grab a twig from a bush… And get to [...]

In all sincerity It is a pathetic pity I merely offer sympathy With such velocity This sadness born out of the blue That decides to levy itself on you In your fixed stillness I sense your illness Accept my sympathy You lost a pet Somebody made you upset Accept my sympathy You lost a friend [...]

In all sincerity It is a pathetic pity I merely offer sympathy With such velocity This sadness born out of the blue That decides to levy itself on you In your fixed stillness I sense your illness Accept my sympathy You lost a pet Somebody made you upset Accept my sympathy You lost a friend [...]