At the Railway Station, Upway

"There is not much that I can do,

For I've no money that's quite my own!"

Spoke up the pitying child -

A little boy with a violin

At the station before the train came in, -

"But I can play my fiddle to you,

And a nice one 'tis, and good in tone!"

The man in the handcuffs smiled;

The constable looked, and he smiled, too,

As the fiddle began to twang;

And the man in the handcuffs suddenly sang

Uproariously:

"This life so free

Is the thing for me!"

And the constable smiled, and said no word,

As if unconscious of what he heard;

And so they went on till the train came in -

The convict, and boy with the violin.

A quote by Thomas Hardy

"Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.” 

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