Poem: Laugh and be merry - John Masefield
Laugh and be merry: remember,
better the world with a song,
Better the world with a blow in
the teeth of a wrong.
Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread
the length of a span.
Laugh, and be proud to belong to
the old proud pageant of man.
Laugh and be merry: remember, in
olden time,
God made heaven and earth for joy
He took in a rhyme,
Made them, and filled them full
with the strong red wine of His mirth;
The splendid joy of the stars,
the joy of the earth.
So we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky,
Join the jubilant song of the great stars
sweeping by,
Laugh, and battle, and work, ad
drink of the wine outpoured
In the dear green earth, the sign
of the joy of the Lord.
Laugh and be merry together, like
brothers akin,
Guesting awhile in the rooms of a
beautiful inn,
Glad till the dancing stops, and
the lilt of the music ends.
Laugh till the game is played;
and be you merry, my friends.
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