The Home Book of Verse, vol 2
The sense of the world is short, - Long and various the report, - To love and be beloved; Men and gods have
not outlearned it; And, how oft soe\'er they\'ve turned it, \'Tis not to be improved.
The sense of the world is short, - Long and various the report, - To love and be beloved; Men and gods have
not outlearned it; And, how oft soe\'er they\'ve turned it, \'Tis not to be improved.