O, merry is the optimist,
With the troops of courage leaguing.
But a dour trend
In any friend
Is somehow less fatiguing.


A Pocketful of Rye, 1940

Phyllis McGinley Quotes

O, merry is the optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

O, merry is the optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

O, merry is the optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

O, merry is the optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.