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! <br /> <br />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!<br /><br />William Schwenck Gilbert<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-tangled-skein/
