What is Hope? A smiling rainbow <br />Children follow through the wet; <br />’Tis not here, still yonder, yonder: <br />Never urchin found it yet. <br /> <br />What is Life? A thawing iceboard <br />On a sea with sunny shore;— <br />Gay we sail; it melts beneath us; <br />We are sunk, and seen no more. <br /> <br />What is Man? A foolish baby, <br />Vainly strives, and fights, and frets; <br />Demanding all, deserving nothing;— <br />One small grave is what he gets.<br /><br />Thomas Carlyle<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cui-bono-4/
