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> A nice poem— especially for Jessie Song
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I got a very nice poem today from my writting teacher.
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> Now I share it with my friends, especially Jessie Song.
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> Times of our life
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> To realize the value of ONE YEAR,
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> Ask the student who has failed the
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> classes.
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> To realize the value of ONE MONTH,
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> Ask a mother who gave birth to a
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> premature baby.
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> To realize the value of ONE WEEK,
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> ask the editor of the weekly newspaper.
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> To realize the value of ONE DAY,
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> Ask the hotel manager.
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> To realize the value of ONE HOUR,
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> Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
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> To realize the value of ONE MINUTE,
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> Ask the person who missed the train.
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> To realize the value of ONE SECOND,
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> Ask a person who just avoid an accident.
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> To realize the value of MILLISECOND,
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> Ask the person who won a silver medal
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> In Olympics.
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> Treasure every moment you have!
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> Yesterday is history.
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> Tomorrow is mystery.
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> Today is a gift.
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> That’s why it’s called the present!
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> I’m nobody
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> I‘m nobody! Who are you?
> Are you nobody, too?
> Then there’s a pair of us - don‘t tell!
> They’d banish us, you know.
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> How dreary to be somebody!
> How public like a frog
> To tell your name the livelong day
> To an admiring bog!
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> I died for beauty
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> I died for beauty, but was scarce
> Adjusted in the tomb,
> When one who died for truth was lain
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> He questioned softly why I failed?
> "For beauty," I replied.
> "And I for truth, - the two are one;
> We brethren are," he said.
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> And so, as kinsmen met at night,
> We talked between the rooms,
> Until the moss had reached our lips,
> And covered up our names.
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