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Three Happy Poems....



"The Joy Of Being Poor" by Robert William Service

**Let others sing of gold and gear, the joy of being rich; But oh, the days when I was poor, a vagrant in a ditch  !  When every dawn was like a gem, so radiant and rare, And I had but a single coat, and not a single care; When I would feast right royally on bacon, bread and beer, And dig into a stack of hay and doze like any peer  ;  When I would wash beside a brook my solitary shirt, And though it dried upon my back I never took a hurt; When I went romping down the road @contemptuous   of care, And slapped Adventure on the back -- by Gad! we were a pair; When, though my pockets lacked a coin, and though my coat was old, **   **The largess of the stars was mine, and all the sunset gold **  <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">When time was only made for fools, and free as air was I, <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">And hard I hit and hard I lived beneath the open sky <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> ; <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> When all the roads were one to me, and each had its allure. . . Ye Gods! these were the happy days, the days when I was poor. ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">

"The Words the Happy Say" by Emily Dickonson

**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The words the <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">happy <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> say Are <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">paltry <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">melody <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> But those the silent feel <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Are beautiful <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> "Happy the Lab'rer" by Jane Austen

**<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">In light-drab coat, smart waistcoat, well-darn'd hose, And hat upon his head, to church he goes; As oft, with conscious pride, he downward throws A glance upon the ample **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">cabbage rose <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> He envies not the gayest **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">London beaux <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">. In church he takes his seat among the rows, Pays to the place the **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">reverence <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">he owes, Likes best the p **<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">rayers whose meaning least he knows <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">, ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> And rouses joyous at the welcome close.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Happy the lab'rer in his Sunday clothes! **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">That, stuck in button-hole, **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">regales his nos <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">e <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Lists to the sermon in a softening doze,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">"The Big Wrap Up" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> **