The Optimist

Herford no. 22

Said a cheerful old bear at the Zoo:
“I never have time to feel blue.
If it bores me, you know,
To walk to and fro,
I reverse it and walk fro and to.”

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXV, January 1913, no. 3, p. 480.]

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