<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Summer Summary</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I, lying in a grot,<br>Die because the day is hot?<br>Or declare I can't endure<br>Such a torrid temperature?<br>Be it hotter than the flames<br>South Gehenna Junction claims,<br> If it be not so to me,<br> What care I how hot it be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I say I love the town<br>Praised by Robinson and Browne?<br>Shall I say, 'In summer heat<br>Old Manhattan can't be beat?'<br>Be it luring as a bar,<br>Or my neighbour's motor-car,<br> If I think it is pazziz<br> What care I how fine it is?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall I prate of rural joys<br>Far from civic smoke and noise?<br>Shall I, like the others, drool<br>'But the nights are always cool?'<br>If I hate to rise at six<br>Shall I praise the suburbs? Nix!<br> If the country's not for me,<br> What care I how good it be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Town or country, cool or hot,<br>Differs nothing, matters not;<br>For to quote that Roman cuss,<br>Why dispute 'de gustibus?'<br>If to this or that one should<br>Take a fancy, it is good.<br> If these rhymes look good to me,<br> What care I how bad they be?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Franklin+P.+Adams">Franklin P. Adams</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=392916" data-title="A Summer Summary de Franklin P. Adams" data-description="Shall I, lying in a grot, Die because the day is hot? Or declare I can't endure Such a torrid temperature? Be it hotter than the flames South Gehenna Junction claims, If it be not so to me, What care I how hot it be? Shall I say I love the town..."></div> </div> </div>

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