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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOLACE, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: It little takes to heal the aches of people who
Last Line: Money.
Subject(s): Comfort
First Line: It little takes to heal the aches of people who
Last Line: Money.
Subject(s): Comfort
IT little takes to heal the aches of people who are human; the song of bird, at
daybreak heard, will cheer a weeping woman; a kindly act performed with tact
will make some man less bitter; a friendly smile will quell the bile of some
disgusted critter. Where'er I go I find that woe is always up and doing, and
careworn chumps have doleful dumps, their little griefs pursuing. This view they
gain from years of strain and stress and long endeavor, they seem to think that
on the blink all things will be forever. But when I come I make things hum, with
joke and whiskered story; I always preach that life's a peach, the world all
hunkydory. And it beats all how gloom will fall, when anyone defies it; if you
would scare away dull care, just show that you despise it. The things I say,
though lame and gray, from almanacs collected, make jaded men wear grins again,
and brace up the dejected. So every gent who's worth a cent should preach the
gospel sunny, and take men's minds from sordid grinds, and scratching after
money.
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