Hoàng-Ân.................................................
The Ultima of an Ultimatum.......................
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The revocation of your decision
for your revisitation to my perception
about the admonition of my advocation
for a vocation concerning the formulation
in the creation of
a revision for the resuscitation
the resuscitation
of the devotion for the beautification
the beautification
of a definition for a Union:
--Without falsification, I love with caution!
(Winter 1996: after a visit to Vietnam)
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.