Link your arm in mine, my lad''" You and I together, You and I and all the rest Shall face the winter weather. Chorus Some to good, and some to harm, Some to cheer the others, All the world goes arm in arm, And all the men are brothers. Fortune kicks us here and there, Small our role in life, lad. Better paltry peace, howe'er, Than hero-laurelled strife, lad. While there's liquor to be had, Deeply drain the bickers. Ocean plays at marbles, lad, With men of war for knickers. Who will ever hear of me? Who will hear of you, lad? Devil take posterity And present people too, lad! I have work enough to do, Strength enough to do it''" I have work and so have you, So put your shoulder to it! Some do half that I can do, Some can do the double, Some must rule for me and you, To save ourselves the trouble! Who would envy yonder man Decorated thus, lad? We are workingmen for him, And he's an earl for us, lad! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPAIN IN AMERICA by GEORGE SANTAYANA A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS by KAREN SWENSON WENDELL PHILLIPS by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT SONG OF SAUL BEFORE HIS LAST BATTLE by GEORGE GORDON BYRON EPITAPH FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALEXANDER POPE THE GARDEN by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE SWING by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON ON THE AMOROUS AND PATHETIC STORY OF ARCADIUS AND SEPHA by L. B. |