Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RIGHT AND WRONG, by ANONYMOUS


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RIGHT AND WRONG, by                    
First Line: Alas! How hardly things go right!
Last Line: Will be changed by the love into sunshine again
Subject(s): Morality; Ethics


ALAS! how hardly things go right!
'T is hard to watch on a summer's night,
For the sigh will come, and the kiss will stay,
And the summer's night is a winter's day.

Alas! how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too much or a kiss too long,
And there comes a mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.

And yet how easily things go right,
If the sigh and the kiss of the summer's night
Come deep from the soul in the stronger ray
That is born in the light of the winter's day.

And things can never go badly wrong
If the heart be true and the love be strong;
For the mist, if it comes, and the weeping rain,
Will be changed by the love into sunshine again.





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