How would happiness appear in verse?
When wistfulness and sadness are at bay,
And darkness breaks to sunshine and full day,
When everything insists I should rehearse
My blessings, and no longer look to curse,
What should I write? What do I have to say
In happiness, accustomed to defray
My sadness in my poetry? The worse
My view of life, the better poetry
Has run itself through me; how to adjust
To sounds of joy? Yet change my tune I must,
For I am happy. I will have to see
What comes of this, and practicing, I trust,
Will let me write good poems happily.
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