Versamelde gedigte

[The world's a riddle none can read]

The world's a riddle none can read
nor worth the reading. Where's the need
To solve a useless puzzle? Give
God's living sunshine - all this wealth
Of colour, beauty, action, health
All that it means to be alive
O give it thanks beyond and o'er
Such thanks and take no care
How the world wags or others fare.

Alas what time this body I own
Was in its watery bed laid down
All planned to such perfection as
In late life it might obtain
Bone, muscle, blood corpuscles, brain
Aye all that adolescence has
There crept into some ganglion cell
A questing atom shrieking Tell

M.P.O. Burgers-versameling