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Some Excuses for a Smile
Lives of great men all remind us,
Life is really not worthwhile,
Unless we all can leave behind us,
Some excuses for a smile.
These women don't look too amused, but someone with a sense of humor must have added the poem to this real photo postcard.
These four lines of rhyme appeared in 1905 in The Silly Syclopedia, a book by "Noah Lott" (an entertaining pseudonym for the writer George V. Hobart). The poem turns out to be a parody of the following stanza from "A Psalm of Life," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Life is really not worthwhile,
Unless we all can leave behind us,
Some excuses for a smile.
These women don't look too amused, but someone with a sense of humor must have added the poem to this real photo postcard.
These four lines of rhyme appeared in 1905 in The Silly Syclopedia, a book by "Noah Lott" (an entertaining pseudonym for the writer George V. Hobart). The poem turns out to be a parody of the following stanza from "A Psalm of Life," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Canafornian, Indycaver (Norm), RicksPics, Deborah Lundbech have particularly liked this photo
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