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Show SOMEHOW OR OTHER Somehow or other we can't get along As well as we thought that we ought to. ' Somehow or other we manage things wrong; And though we give plenty of thought to The matter of planning a system of life With much more of conscience and morals,! Somehow or other we get jnto strife v And woes, tribulations and quarrels. t r Somehow or other we mean to do right, f ',' Then fail in the thing we intended; - Somehow or other we row and we fight r" Until the whole business is ended ; i We make of the world a disorderly sphere U Of antagonistical factions, . Which, somehow or other, consistently queer! Our most philanthropic reactions. Somehow or other we try to be kind And somehow or other we botch it ; We mean to see clearly and then go it blind, We turn a new leaf and we splotch it ; It's utterly silly .impossible, vain, This world If you pause to construe it And people can't live through it all and keep sane, Yet somehow or other we do it 1 BERTON BRALEY, in The Home Sector. |