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Rudyard Kipling - Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal
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Speakin` in general, I `ave tried `em all,
The `appy roads that take you o`er the world.
Speakin` in general, I `ave found them good
For such as cannot use one bed too long,
But must get `ence, the same as I `ave done,
An` go observin` matters till they die.
 
What do it matter where or `ow we die,
So long as we`ve our `ealth to watch it all —
The different ways that different things are done,
An` men an` women lovin` in this world —
Takin` our chances as they come along,
An` when they ain`t, pretendin` they are good?
 
In cash or credit — no, it aren`t no good;
You `ave to `ave the `abit or you`d die,
Unless you lived your life but one day long,
Nor didn`t prophesy nor fret at all,
But drew your tucker some`ow from the world,
An` never bothered what you might ha` done.
 
But, Gawd, what things are they I `aven`t done?
I`ve turned my `and to most, an` turned it good,
In various situations round the world —
For `im that doth not work must surely die;
But that`s no reason man should labour all
`Is life on one same shift; life`s none so long.
 
Therefore, from job to job I`ve moved along.
Pay couldn`t `old me when my time was done,
For something in my `ead upset me all,
Till I `ad dropped whatever `twas for good,
An`, out at sea, be`eld the dock-lights die,
An` met my mate — the wind that tramps the world!
 
It`s like a book, I think, this bloomin` world,
Which you can read and care for just so long,
But presently you feel that you will die
Unless you get the page you`re readin` done,
An` turn another — likely not so good;
But what you`re after is to turn `em all.
 
Gawd bless this world!  Whatever she `ath done —
Excep` when awful long — I`ve found it good.
So write, before I die, "`E liked it all!"
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