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Life Poems
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Insightful life poems will often take you on a journey through nature to teach you more about the true joy of living. So stop rushing through life, take a deep look at the beautiful world around you, and allow your spirit to fill with pleasure and happiness.
The Joy of Living
by Gamaliel Bradford
The south wind is driving
His splendid cloud-horses
Through vast fields of blue.
The bare woods are singing,
The brooks in their courses
Are bubbling and springing
And dancing and leaping,
The violets peeping.
I'm glad to be living:
Aren't you?
~Gamaliel Bradford (1768 - 1824)
Captain Gamaliel Bradford was a privateersman who commanded the American private armed ship Mary in 1799 and then took command of the Industry in 1800 during the American Revolution. The American destroyer--USS Bradford--was named in his honor in 1943.
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