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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416659" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It's_Got_To Be</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'When it's _got_ to be,'--like! always say,<br>As I notice the years whiz past,<br>And know each day is a yesterday,<br>When we size it up, at last,--<br>Same as I said when my _boyhood_ went<br>And I knowed _we_ had to quit,--<br>'It's _got_ to be, and it's _goin'_ to be!'--<br>So I said 'Good-by' to _it_.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's _got_ to be, and it's _goin'_ to be!<br>So at least I always try<br>To kind o' say in a hearty way,--<br>'Well, it's _got_ to be. Good-by!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The time jes melts like a late, last snow,--<br>When it's _got_ to be, it melts!<br>But I aim to keep a cheerful mind,<br>Ef I can't keep nothin' else!<br>I knowed, when I come to twenty-one,<br>That I'd soon be twenty-two,--<br>So I waved one hand at the soft young man,<br>And I said, 'Good-by to _you_!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's _got_ to be, and it's _goin'_ to be!<br>So at least I always try<br>To kind o' say, in a cheerful way,--<br>'Well, it's _got_ to be.--Good-by!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They kep' a-goin', the years and years,<br>Yet still I smiled and smiled,--<br>For I'd said 'Good-by' to my single life,<br>And I now had a wife and child:<br>Mother and son and the father--one,--<br>Till, last, on her bed of pain,<br>She jes' smiled up, like she always done,--<br>And I said 'Good-by' again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's _got_ to be, and it's _goin'_ to be!<br>So at least I always try<br>To kind o' say, in a humble way,--<br>'Well, it's _got_ to be. Good-by!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then my boy--as he growed to be<br>Almost a man in size,--<br>Was more than a pride and joy to me,<br>With his mother's smilin' eyes.--<br>He gimme the slip, when the War broke out,<br>And followed me. And I<br>Never knowed till the first right's end ...<br>I found him, and then, ... 'Good-by.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's _got_ to be, and it's _goin'_ to be!<br>So at least I always try<br>To kind o' say, in a patient way,<br>'Well, it's _got_ to be. Good-by!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have said, 'Good-by!--Good-by!--Good-by!'<br>With my very best good will,<br>All through life from the first,--and I<br>Am a cheerful old man still:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it's _got_ to end, and it's _goin'_ to end!<br>And this is the thing I'll do,--<br>With my last breath I will laugh, O Death,<br>And say 'Good-by' to _you_!...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's _got_ to be! And again I say,--<br>When his old scythe circles high,<br>I'll laugh--of course, in the kindest way,--<br>As I say 'Good-by!--Good-by!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q>
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As I notice the years whiz past,
And know each day is a yesterday,
When we size it up, at last,--
Same as I said when my _boyhood_ went
And I knowed _we_ had to quit,--
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