<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477713" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Just Whistle A Bit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just whistle a bit, if the day be dark,<br>And the sky be overcast:<br>If mute be the voice of the piping lark,<br>Why, pipe your own small blast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And it's wonderful how o'er the gray sky-track<br>The truant warbler comes stealing back.<br>But why need he come? for your soul's at rest,<br>And the song in the heart,--ah, that is best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just whistle a bit, if the night be drear<br>And the stars refuse to shine:<br>And a gleam that mocks the starlight clear<br>Within you glows benign.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till the dearth of light in the glooming skies<br>Is lost to the sight of your soul-lit eyes.<br>What matters the absence of moon or star?<br>The light within is the best by far.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just whistle a bit, if there 's work to do,<br>With the mind or in the soil.<br>And your note will turn out a talisman true<br>To exorcise grim Toil.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It will lighten your burden and make you feel<br>That there 's nothing like work as a sauce for a meal.<br>And with song in your heart and the meal in--its place,<br>There 'll be joy in your bosom and light in your face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just whistle a bit, if your heart be sore;<br>'Tis a wonderful balm for pain.<br>Just pipe some old melody o'er and o'er<br>Till it soothes like summer rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And perhaps 't would be best in a later day,<br>When Death comes stalking down the way,<br>To knock at your bosom and see if you 're fit,<br>Then, as you wait calmly, just whistle a bit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477713" data-title="Just Whistle A Bit de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="Just whistle a bit, if the day be dark, And the sky be overcast: If mute be the voice of the piping lark, Why, pipe your own small blast. And it's wonderful how o'er the gray sky-track The truant warbler comes stealing back. But why need he come?..."></div> </div> </div>

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