<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357705" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Obadiah Bell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am fit and I am well (so said Obadiah Bell.)<br>I take life as it come from day to day,<br>I have never been a scorner<br>Of the 'trouble round the corner,'<br>For it may be lurking half a life away.<br>No false vision ere bewitches<br>Me with dreams of fame or riches,So I'm fairly well content and free of strife.<br>With my job and friends and my garden and my fowls, and my club and my bowls<br>and my pipe and my books and my dog and my family and my wife.<br>And, since I seek the safer things in life,<br>Most especially my family and wife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On occasion, vagrant fears stir me with the passing years,<br>A sudden qualm, a flash of half-felt fright;<br>But I know my limitations<br>As a savior of nations:<br> And who am I to put the world aright.<br>So, when qualms like these assail me,<br>What I find may never fail me<br>As, contented as I may, tho' life I jog,<br>Are my job and friends and my fowls and my club and my bowls and my pipe<br>and my family and my wife and my books and my garden and my dog,<br>And, when I'd dissipate some mental fog,<br>Most especially my garden and my dog.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a man can tell tell (so said Obadiah Bell.)<br>When what he has may one day disappear:<br>So I thank what gods there be<br>That all they gave to me<br>Has stayed with me for yet another year.<br>And I do such as I can<br>To assist my fellow man<br>And wish him blessed as I am with my lot <br>With my family and my wife, and my job and my bowls and my pipe and my <br>dog and my club and my friends and my little garden plot;<br>And, when I think of all the joy I've got,<br>Most especially my friends, and which is not?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357705" data-title="Obadiah Bell de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="I am fit and I am well (so said Obadiah Bell.) I take life as it come from day to day, I have never been a scorner Of the 'trouble round the corner,' For it may be lurking half a life away. No false vision ere bewitches Me with dreams of fame or r..."></div> </div> </div>

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