life
However mean your life is, meet it and live it;
do not shun it and call it hard names.
It is not so bad as you are.
It looks poorest when you are richest.
The faultfounder will find faults even in paradise.
Love your life, poor as it is.
You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours,
even in a poor-house.
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse
as brightly as from the rich man''s abode;
the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. |
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