Today’s Poem: Retirement
A Southern wish for the simple life
A theme runs through a lot of poetry — and through even more prose: the theme of self-help books, ads for athletic shoes, and the exhortations of cheerleaders for the active life. “Let us, then, be up and doing,” as Longfellow put it in 1838, “With a heart for any fate; / …
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