Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song, <br />Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong. <br />Laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span. <br />Laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. <br /> <br />Laugh and be merry: remember, in olden time. <br />God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme, <br />Made them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of <br />His mirth <br />The splendid joy of the stars: the joy of the earth. <br /> <br />So we must laugh and drink from the deep blue cup of the sky, <br />Join the jubilant song of the great stars sweeping by, <br />Laugh, and battle, and work, and drink of the wine outpoured <br />In the dear green earth, the sign of the joy of the Lord. <br /> <br />Laugh and be merry together, like brothers akin, <br />Guesting awhile in the rooms of a beautiful inn, <br />Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music ends. <br />Laugh till the game is played; and be you merry, my friends.<br /><br />John Masefield<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/laugh-and-be-merry/
