Living
A Merry Heart Goes All the Day
From Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1889)
Living
Jog on, jog on, the footpath way,
And merrily hent the stile-a:
A merry heart goes all the day,
Your sad tires in a mile-a.
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Shakespeare, William. “A Merry Heart Goes All the Day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/210/.
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Shakespeare, William. “A Merry Heart Goes All the Day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/210/.
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