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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 6. HUMOR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER
First Line: What light and air are to the things which grow
Last Line: By humorous quips of some icelandic spot.
Subject(s): Humorists; Life
First Line: What light and air are to the things which grow
Last Line: By humorous quips of some icelandic spot.
Subject(s): Humorists; Life
What light and air are to the things which grow,
What rain is to the parched and heat-dried field,
So in each life is humor which we know
Though only few its pointed shafts can wield.
It adds unto our daily lives a zest,
Gives piquancy to e'en the sluggish thought.
It is delightful when it is at best,
And makes its master by the world besought.
I sometimes wonder if the angels use
This sixth sense of the finite, earth-born soul,
And if at times they e'er have deigned to choose
To notice wit which seems to us so droll.
I wonder if the Calvinistic hell
Has funny sprites who makes its inmate's lot
A cheerful one, in spite of where they dwell,
By humorous quips of some Icelandic spot.
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