Quote#Happiness
What joy have I in June's return?
Quote byThomas Hood · 1799–1845
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Ode Imitated from Horace (1844), st. 2..
English (original)
What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched—my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging Zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me "dust to dust."
— Thomas Hood
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And there is ev'n a happiness That makes the heart afraid!
There's not a string attuned to mirth But has its chord in melancholy.
His death which happened in his berth, At forty-odd befell: They went and told the sexton, and The sexton tolled the bell.
I remember, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon Nor brought too long a day;
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy
But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart.