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Learn To Like
BY
Robert Service
School yourself to savour most
Joys that have but little cost;
Prove the best of life is free,
Sun and stars and sky and sea;
Eager in your eyes to please,
Proffer meadows, brooks and trees;
Nature strives for your content,
Never charging you a cent.
Learn to love a garden gay,
Flowers and fruit in rich array.
Care for dogs and singing birds,
Have for children cheery words.
Find plain food and comfort are
More than luxury by far.
Music, books and honest friends
Outweigh golden dividends.
Love your work and do it well,
Scorning not a leisure spell.
Hold the truest form of wealth
Body fit and ruddy health.
Let your smile of happiness
Rustic peace serenely stress:
Home to love and heart to pray--
Thank your God for every day.
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Via, Veritas, Vita
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Before www, we used VVV
"Via, Veritas, Vita" earned your degree.
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A flatulent flatmate destroys my lie-in,
forlorn, fretty and yelling.
Through Belfast outcry I ascertain;
he's discovered he's Andrexless yet again.
(He's fondly known to us as Sledge.
Gets pulled by cold, scruffy dogs, it's alleged)
Before showering, I shave my soap.
Rory's a red-head, not only on top.
...ERROR...
lectures
...ERROR...
We adjourn to the Union,
to look at Cher ride her cannon.
Rocky is drooling; poor, horny loner.
So I nip for our orders; Four yards of Fosters.
After the orders, I hone my kebabsmanship,
on fodder of donner and curry chips.
A fresh gust of gravity lands me on my back,
The kebab upside up: secure, intact.
Home at last - our heads to lay.
Fulfilled, content: another lost day.
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