Happy Thought

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Happy Thought

by Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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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