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Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис)


A Cabbage Patch


Folk ask if I'm alive,
Most think I'm not;
Yet gaily I contrive
To till my plot.
The world its way can go,
I little heed,
So long as I can grow
The grub I need.

For though long overdue,
The years to me,
Have taught a lesson true,
--Humility.
Such better men than I
I've seen pass on;
Their pay-off when they die;
--Oblivion.

And so I mock at fame,
With books unread;
No monument I claim
When I am dead;
Contented as I see
My cottage thatch
That my last goal should be
--A cabbage patch.



Robert William Service's other poems:
  1. Old Sweethearts
  2. Poor Kid
  3. Poet's Path
  4. Portent
  5. The Front Tooth


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