Hoàng-Ân
i am yours
i am the ferment in your beer
i am the sting in your liquor
i am the bubble in your champagne
i am the cherry in your cocktail
i am the olive in your martini
i am the yeast in your bread
i am the green in your salad
i am the flour in your pasta
i am the cheese in your pizza
i am the lemon in your lemonade
i am yours
i am yours
i am yours
WILLIAM THOMPSON (1712-1766)
THE HAPPY LIFE
A book, a friend, a song, a glass,
A chaste, yet laughter-loving lass,
To mortals various joys impart,
Inform the sense, and warm the heart.
Thrice happy they, who careless laid
Beneath a kind-embowering shade,
With rosy wreaths their temples crown,
In rosy wine their sorrow drown.
Begone, ambition, riches, toys,
And splendid cares, and guilty joys--
Give me a book, a friend, a glass,
And a chaste, laughter-loving lass.
