<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539054" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Tangled Skein</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Try we life-long, we can never<br>Straighten out life's tangled skein,<br>Why should we, in vain endeavour,<br>Guess and guess and guess again?<br>Life's a pudding full of plums<br>Care's a canker that benumbs.<br>Wherefore waste our elocution<br>On impossible solution?<br>Life's a pleasant institution,<br>Let us take it as it comes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Set aside the dull enigma,<br>We shall guess it all too soon;<br>Failure brings no kind of stigma -<br>Dance we to another tune!<br>String the lyre and fill the cup,<br>Lest on sorrow we should sup;<br>Hop and skip to Fancy's fiddle,<br>Hands across and down the middle -<br>Life's perhaps the only riddle<br>That we shrink from giving up!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</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=539054" data-title="The Tangled Skein de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="Try we life-long, we can never Straighten out life's tangled skein, Why should we, in vain endeavour, Guess and guess and guess again? Life's a pudding full of plums Care's a canker that benumbs. Wherefore waste our elocution On impossible solutio..."></div> </div> </div>

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