Oh! foolish one in quest of ease,
Do you not know that ease on earth, for men,
Is like unto the “Pot of Gold”
upon the rainbow’s end;
A wily “will-o’-the-wisp” who
flees, and flees, and flees,
Not huriedly, but just a step
beyond your grasp-is ease?
(Raymond Garfield Dandridge)
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