Two Kinds of People

Two Kinds of People

No; the two kinds of people on earth I mean

Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

Wherever you go you will find the world's masses

Are always divided in just these two classes.

And oddly enough, you will find too, I think

There is ony one lifter to twenty who lean.

In which class are you? Are you easing the load

Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road?

Or are you a leaner, who lets other bear

Your portion of labor and worry and care?

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Along the Road

Along the Road

I walked a mile with Pleasure.

She chattered all the way,

But left me none the wiser

For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow,

And ne'er a word said she;

But, oh, the things I learned from her

When Sorrow walked with me.

-Robert Browning Hamilton