Hercules strode off whistling gaily
Conscious of having done a poor soul good;
Left behind Sisyphus weeping bitterly
At having been deprived of his livelihood.
No Good Turn
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Monthly Archives: October 2018
Would you could come
Would you could come
along with me,
How happy I’d be
—and we together!
Loving ever
at our leisure
Till the end
—and we together!
But now wherever I turn
I see your face again
—in crowds,
and worn by solitary men—
Turn where I will
I see you everywhere!
Would you had stayed
with us, with me,
And things were as they’d been
Or would you’d come along
with me—
And we’d have time at journey’s end
To spend our lives as we were meant:
With all our beautiful things arrayed
And everyone happy, no one sad.
The Earl of Rollercoaster
The Earl of Rollercoaster found
It inconvenient to expound
On why it was he loved to race
Continually from place to place
Whilst whirling rapidly around —
Now here, now there, now soaring high,
Now falling freely toward the ground,
And screaming all the while.
That’s why he built that crazy train
That bears his name:
It’s easier to experience
than to explain.
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