Does anybody even remember this nowadays???? Makes me Wonderfully nostalgic
Leisure by W. H. Davies
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
"Meaning to read more": What Jane Austen's characters read (and why), part 4
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[image: The Reader by Marguerite Gerard 1786]
*The Reader* by Marguerite Gérard and Jean Honoré Fragonard, c. 1786. Image
source: The Fitzwilliam Museum, C...
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