From the Poets
LAUGH AND BE MERRY. 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 the 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 and drink of I 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, Glad till the game is played, and be you merry, my friends. —John Masefield. —Sent in by Cousin Mollie Fell, (14). 1
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Southland Times, Issue 20675, 22 December 1928, Page 22 (Supplement)
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202From the Poets Southland Times, Issue 20675, 22 December 1928, Page 22 (Supplement)
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