They Would Happy Be the Ones
A song by Paul Hall, written in Brisbane, Australia during his walkabout (a lengthy excursion done in order to become adult) in 1986.
I pass on the message I learned during the time of the eclipse of the sun and moon and of the advent of Halley's Comet. It's a practical advise for happiness.
(c) by Paul Hall, 1987.
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They would happy be the ones
who finally did not send
their hopes into the elements
of that which does pretend
and vaunt into magnificence
a sedentary end
where die
the things
men once called great
that armies did defend
For excellence emerges rough
into a blistering sun,
and where the difficult does sting
eternity's begun.
True happiness rejects the blend
of noxious with refined
to make of hopelessness
a start
in stalwart
states of mind.
And then when courses
have been run
and this world's left behind
They would happy be the ones
who in the distance find
that Earth's despair
was just a bluff
where the dismal stayed entwined
into a state of changelessness
where could-have-seen
stays blind.
For excellence emerges rough
into a blistering sun,
and where the difficult does sting
eternity's begun.
True happiness rejects the blend
of noxious with refined
to make of hopelessness
a start
in stalwart
states of mind.
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