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William Schwenck Gilbert - The Tangled SkeinWilliam Schwenck Gilbert - The Tangled Skein
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Try we life-long, we can never Straighten out life`s tangled skein, Why should we, in vain endeavour, Guess and guess and guess again? Life`s a pudding full of plums Care`s a canker that benumbs. Wherefore waste our elocution On impossible solution? Life`s a pleasant institution, Let us take it as it comes! Set aside the dull enigma, We shall guess it all too soon; Failure brings no kind of stigma - Dance we to another tune! String the lyre and fill the cup, Lest on sorrow we should sup; Hop and skip to Fancy`s fiddle, Hands across and down the middle - Life`s perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up!
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