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Pessimist And Optimist

By Thomas Bailey Aldrich


This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile,
Taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath:
This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while
Laughs in the teeth of Death.

Source Book

Flower And Thorn: Later Poems

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Copyright 1876
Published by James R. Osgood And Company, Boston

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