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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357966" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mooch O' Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This ev'nin' I was sittin' wiv Doreen,<br> Peaceful an' 'appy wiv the day's work done,<br>Watchin', be'ind the orchard's bonzer green,<br> The flamin' wonder of the settin' sun.<br> <br>Another day gone by; another night <br>Creepin' along to douse Day's golden light; <br> Another dawning when the night is gone,<br> To live an' love - an' so life mooches on.<br> <br>Times I 'ave thought, when things was goin' crook,<br> When 'Ope turned nark an' Love forgot to smile,<br>Of somethin' I once seen in some old book<br> Where an ole sorehead arsts, 'Is life worf w'ile? '<br> <br>But in that stillness, as the day grows dim,<br>An' I am sittin' there wiv 'er an' 'im-<br> My wife, my son! an' strength in me to strive,<br> I only know - it's good to be alive! <br> <br>Yeh live, yeh love, yeh learn; an' when yeh come<br> To square the ledger in some thortful hour, <br>The everlastin' answer to the sum<br> Must allus be, 'Where's sense in gittin' sour? '<br> <br>Fer when yeh've come to weigh the good an' bad -<br>The gladness wiv the sadness you 'ave 'ad -<br> Then 'im 'oo's faith in 'uman goodness fails<br> Fergits to put 'is liver in the scales.<br> <br>Livin' an' loving learnin' day be day; <br> Pausin' a minute in the barmy strife <br>To find that 'elpin' others on the way<br> Is gold coined fer your profit - sich is life.<br> <br>I've studied books wiv yearnings to improve,<br>To 'eave meself out of me lowly groove,<br> An' 'ere is orl the change I ever got:<br> ''Ark at yer 'eart, an' you kin learn the lot.'<br> <br>I gives it in - that wisdom o' the mind -<br> I wasn't built to play no lofty part.<br>Orl such is welkim to the joys they find; <br> I only know the wisdom o' the 'eart.<br> <br>An' ever it 'as taught me, day be day, <br>The one same lesson in the same ole way:<br> 'Look fer yer profits in the 'earts o' friends,<br> Fer 'atin' never paid no dividends.'<br> <br>Life's wot yeh make it; an' the bloke 'oo tries<br>To grab the shinin' stars frum out the skies<br> Goes crook on life, an' calls the world a cheat,<br> An' tramples on the daisies at 'is feet.<br> <br>But when the moon comes creepin' o'er the hill,<br> An' when the mopoke calls along the creek,<br>I takes me cup o' joy an' drinks me fill,<br> An' arsts meself wot better could I seek.<br> <br>An' ev'ry song I 'ear the thrushes sing <br>That everlastin' message seems to bring; <br> An' ev'ry wind that whispers in the trees<br> Gives me the tip there ain't no joys like these:<br> <br>Livin' an' loving wand'rin' on yeh way; <br> Reapin' the 'arvest of a kind deed done; <br>An' watching in the sundown of yer day,<br> Yerself again, grown nobler in yer son.<br> <br>Knowin' that ev'ry coin o' kindness spent <br>Bears interest in yer 'eart at cent per cent; <br> Measurin' wisdom by the peace it brings<br> To simple minds that values simple things.<br> <br>An' when I take a look along the way<br> That I 'ave trod, it seems the man knows best,<br>Who's met wiv slabs of sorrer in 'is day,<br> When 'e is truly rich an' truly blest.<br> <br>An' I am rich, becos me eyes 'ave seen <br>The lovelight in the eyes of my Doreen; <br> An' I am blest, becos me feet 'ave trod<br> A land 'oo's fields reflect the smile o' God.<br> <br>Livin' an' lovin'; learnin' to fergive<br> The deeds an' words of some un'appy bloke<br>Who's missed the bus - so 'ave I come to live,<br> An' take the 'ole mad world as 'arf a joke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sittin' at ev'nin' in this sunset-land,<br>Wiv 'Er in all the World to 'old me 'and,<br> A son, to bear me name when I am gone....<br> Livin' an' lovin' - so life mooches on.</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>
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 Peaceful an' 'appy wiv the day's work done,
Watchin', be'ind the orchard's bonzer green,
 The flamin' wonder of the settin' sun.
 
Another day gone by; another night 
Creepin' along to douse Day's golden lig..."></div>
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