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The End of the Play · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: The end of the play. The play is done. The
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  Speaker 1: curtain drops blackmail to the prompter's bell A moment, yet
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  Speaker 1: the actor stops and looks around to say farewell. It
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  Speaker 1: is an irksome word and task. And when he's laughed
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  Speaker 1: and said his say, he shows as he removes his mask,
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  Speaker 1: a face that's anything but gay. One word ere. Yet
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  Speaker 1: the evening ends. Let's close it with a parting rhyme patriarch,
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  Speaker 1: a hand to all young friends, breathable as fits the
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  Speaker 1: merry Christmas time on life's wide scene, You too have
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  Speaker 1: parts that fate ere long. Shall bid you play good
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  Speaker 1: night with honest gentle hearts a kindly greeting, go alway,
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  Speaker 1: good night. I'd say, the griefs, the joys just hinted
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  Speaker 1: in this mimic page, orbs and defeats of boys semantics
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  Speaker 1: are but repeated in our age concealed. Your woes were
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  Speaker 1: not less keen, blocking, your hopes more vain than those
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  Speaker 1: of men, Your pangs or pleasures of fifteen at forty
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  Speaker 1: five played o'er again, I'd say, we suffer and we strive,
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  Speaker 1: not less nor more as men than boys with grizzled beards.
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  Speaker 1: At forty five authenticate as erst at twelve in Corduroys confiscated.
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  Speaker 1: And if in time of sacred youth we learned at
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  Speaker 1: home to love and pray, pray Heaven, that early love
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  Speaker 1: and truth may never wholly pass away. And in the world,
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  Speaker 1: as in the school, I'd say, how fate may change
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  Speaker 1: and shift. The prize be sometimes to the fool, the
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  Speaker 1: race not always to the swift. The strong may yield,
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  Speaker 1: the good may fall, the great man be a vulgar clown,
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  Speaker 1: the knave be lifted over all, prosecuting the kind cast
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  Speaker 1: pitilessly down. Who knows the inscrutable design? Blesseded be he
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  Speaker 1: who took and gave? Why should your mother, Charles, not mine,
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  Speaker 1: be weeping at her darling's grave? We bow to Heaven
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  Speaker 1: that willed it. So the fate of all that sends
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  Speaker 1: the respite or the blow that's free to give or
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  Speaker 1: to recall. This crowns his feast with wine and wit.
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  Speaker 1: Who brought him to that mirth and state yettes his
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  Speaker 1: betters see below him sit princess or hunger, hopeless at
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  Speaker 1: the gait striped, Who bade the mud from Dives's wheel
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  Speaker 1: to spurn the rags of Lazarus gum. He brother in
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  Speaker 1: that dust will kneel, confessing Heaven that ruled it. Thus,
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  Speaker 1: so each shall mourn in life's advance. Dear hopes, dear friends,
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  Speaker 1: untimely killed, entrenched for many a forfeit chance and longing passion, unfulfilled. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: whatever fate be sent, pray God, the heart may kindly glow,
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  Speaker 1: although the head with cares be bent and whitened with
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  Speaker 1: the winter snow. Come wealth or want, come good or ill.
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  Speaker 1: Let young and old accept their part and bow before
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  Speaker 1: the awful will and bear it with an honest heart.
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  Speaker 1: Who misses or who wins the prize, lose or conquer
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  Speaker 1: as you can. But if you fail, or if you rise,
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  Speaker 1: be each pray God, a gentleman, a gentleman, or old
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  Speaker 1: or young, bear kindly with my humble lays. The Sacred
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  Speaker 1: chorus first was sung prohibited upon the first of Christmas days.
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  Speaker 1: The shepherds heard it overhead, the joyful angels raised it.
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  Speaker 1: Then Glory to Heaven on high, it said, and peace
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  Speaker 1: on earth to gentlemen my song, save this is little
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  Speaker 1: worth arrogance. I lay the weary pen aside stiffness, and
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  Speaker 1: wish you health and love. And mirth as fits the
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  Speaker 1: solemn Christmas tide, as fits the Holy Christmas Birth implemented.
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  Speaker 1: Be this good friends, our Carol still by pass us
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  Speaker 1: on earth. Be peace on Earth. Fastball to men of
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  Speaker 1: gentle will,