Getting And Taking The Most

Do not dissect a man till he is dead. - Thoreau

dragging a cross

scraping burnt toast

hill to hill and coast to coast

with the help of the father, son and holy ghost

sometimes this life ties me to its whipping post

god have mercy on those who like to boast

with the bass so low, percussion slapped along with rhythm dosed

and as someone once so delicately reminded,

we must take the bad with the good because

that's the only way to both get and take the most

Author's Note

"But let us hear a strain of music, we are at once advertised of a life which no man had told us of, which no preacher preaches. Suppose I try to describe faithfully the prospect which a strain of music exhibits to me. The field of my life becomes a boundless plain, glorious to tread, with no death nor disappointment at the end of it. All meanness and trivialness disappear. I become adequate to any deed. No particulars survive this expansion; persons do not survive it. In the light of this strain there is no thou nor I. We are actually lifted above ourselves." - Thoreau