THIS is the truth as I see it, my dear, <br />Out in the wind and the rain: <br />They who have nothing have little to fear,— <br />Nothing to lose or to gain. <br />Here by the road at the end o' the year, <br />Let us sit down and drink o' our beer, <br />Happy-Go-Lucky and her cavalier, <br />Out in the wind and the rain. <br />Now we are old, oh isn't it fine <br />Out in the wind and the rain? <br />Now we have nothing why snivel and whine? — <br />What would it bring us again? — <br />When I was young I took you like wine, <br />Held you and kissed you and thought you divine — <br />Happy-Go-Lucky, the habit's still mine, <br />Out in the wind and the rain. <br />Oh, my old Heart, what a life we have led, <br />Out in the wind and the rain! <br />How we have drunken and how we have fed! <br />Nothing to lose or to gain! — <br />Cover the fire now; get we to bed. <br />Long was the journey and far has it led: <br />Come, let us sleep, lass, sleep like the dead, <br />Out in the wind and the rain.<br /><br />Madison Julius Cawein<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/at-the-end-of-the-road-3/
