There was a rose that faded young; <br />I saw its shattered beauty hung <br />Upon a broken stem. <br />I heard them say, "What need to care <br />With roses budding everywhere?" <br />I did not answer them. <br /> <br />There was a bird, brought down to die; <br />They said, "A hundred fill the sky- <br />What reason to be sad?" <br />There was a girl, whose lover fled; <br />I did not wait, the while they said, <br />"There's many another lad."<br /><br />Dorothy Parker<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/solace/
