If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe…

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.

The King in a carriage may ride, And the Beggar may crawl at his side; But in the general race, They are traveling all the same pace.

I am all for the short and merry life.

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!