Happy Thought
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The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Miscellany
Other poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (read randomly)
The bed was made, the room was fit,
By punctual eve the stars were lit;
The air was still, the water ran,
I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day, …
I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to …
And now at last the sun is g...
The clinkum-clank o' Sabbath bells
Noo to the hoastin' rookery swells,
Noo faintin' laigh in shady dells,
A mile an' a bittock, a mile or twa,
Abune the burn, ayont the law,
Davie an' Donal' an' Cherlie an' a',
I am a kind of farthing dip,
Unfriendly to the nose and eyes;
A blue-behinded ape, I skip
The gauger walked with willing foot,
And aye the gauger played the flute;
And what should Master Gauger play
It is very nice to think
The world is full of meat and drink,
With little children saying grace

