La Vie En Rose - Richard Clayderman
The year
What can be said in New Year rhymes,
The new years come, the old years go,
We rise up laughing with the light,
We hug the world until it stings,
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
That’s not been said a thousand times?
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We lie down weeping with the night.
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.
And that’s the burden of the year.
The shadow by my finger cast
Time is
Let me but live my life from year to year,
So let the way wind up the hill or down,
The worlds in which we live are two
The worlds in which we live at heart are one,
And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit,
Divides the future from the past:
Before it, sleeps the unborn hour
In darkness, and beyond thy power:
Behind its unreturning line,
The vanished hour, no longer thine:
One hour alone is in thy hands,--
The NOW on which the shadow stands.
Henry Van Dyke
Time
Henry Van Dyke
Too Slow for those who Wait,
Too Swift for those who Fear,
Too Long for those who Grieve,
Too Short for those who Rejoice;
But for those who Love,
Time is not.
Life
Henry Van Dyke
With forward face and unreluctant soul,
Not hastening to, nor turning from the goal;
Nor mourning things that disappear
In the dim past, nor holding back in fear
From what the future veils; but with a whole
And happy heart, that pays its toll
To youth and age, and travels on with cheer.
Through rough or smooth, the journey will be joy,
Still seeking what I sought when but a boy --
New friendship, high adventure, and a crown,
I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest,
Because the road's last turn will be the best.
One World
Henry Van Dyke
The world 'I am' and the world 'I do.'
The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done";
The world "I love,"--the only living root.