LUCILE: PART 1, CANTO 2 - Owen Meredith Poems

 
 

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LUCILE: PART 1, CANTO 2
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man can not live without cooks.
He may live without books, -- what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope,  -- what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love,  -- what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?
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