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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHOICE, by BARBARA MASTERSON
First Line: They spend their lives in making sense
Last Line: Nor headache on the morning after.
Subject(s): Clergy; Morality; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Ethics
First Line: They spend their lives in making sense
Last Line: Nor headache on the morning after.
Subject(s): Clergy; Morality; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Ethics
They spend their lives in making sense,
In sacrifice and reverence,
In principle and principal
And merit that's intrinsical.
Never a one-one hundred gamble,
No deed without a long preamble,
Never a gay and foolish lark
In city taverns after dark,
Never a bright-eyed mood of laughter
Nor headache on the morning after.
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