THOMAS CARLYLE’S POEMS

Cui Bono

What is Hope? A smiling rainbow

Children follow through the wet;

’Tis not here, still yonder, yonder:

Never urchin found it yet.

What is Life? A thawing iceboard

On a sea with sunny shore;—

Gay we sail; it melts beneath us;

We are sunk, and seen no more.

What is Man? A foolish baby,

Vainly strives, and fights, and frets;

Demanding all, deserving nothing;—

One small grave is what he gets.

Fortuna

The wind blows east, the wind blows west,

And the frost falls and the rain:

A weary heart went thankful to rest,

And must rise to toil again, ’gain,

And must rise to toil again.

The wind blows east, the wind blows west,

And there comes good luck and bad;

The thriftiest man is the cheerfulest;

’Tis a thriftless thing to be sad, sad,

’Tis a thriftless thing to be sad.

The wind blows east, the wind blows west;

Ye shall know a tree by its fruit:

This world, they say, is worst to the best;—

But a dastard has evil to boot, boot,

But a dastard has evil to boot.

The wind blows east, the wind blows west;

What skills it to mourn or to talk?

A journey I have, and far ere I rest;

I must bundle my wallets and walk, walk,

I must bundle my wallets and walk.

The wind does blow as it lists alway;

Canst thou change this world to thy mind?

The world will wander its own wise way;

I also will wander mine, mine,

I also will wander mine.

Today

So here hath been dawning

Another blue Day:

Think wilt thou let it

Slip useless away.

Out of Eternity

This new Day is born;

Into Eternity,

At night, will return.

Behold it aforetime

No eye ever did:

So soon it forever

From all eyes is hid.

Here hath been dawning

Another blue Day:

Think wilt thou let it

Slip useless away.

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