"I've had a vacation," said Timothy Brown; "A fine one, although I have not left the town. I merely vacated my worries and fears, And at once became younger by fairly five years. I vacated my ruts, and began to enjoy My regular, humdrum, but useful employ. I changed my whole outlook and vision of life, And made it a pastime instead of a strife. I've had a vacation, not vacant, a bore, But fuller and freer than ever before; The best of vacations for fat purse or lean, -- A change of the seeing instead of the scene." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 11 by CONRAD AIKEN TUNK (A LECTURE ON MODERN EDUCATION) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |