Thoughts On A Station Platform
It ought to be plain
how little you gain
by getting excited
and vexed.
You’ll always be late
for the previous train,
and always in time
for the next
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but…
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.