Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance.

Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and rest for the dead!'

Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life for the living, and rest for the dead!

The living need more charity than the dead

And he sang every night as he went to bed. 'Let us be happy down here below: the living should live, though the dead be dead.' Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.

Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.