Friday, February 16, 2007

“The Hardship of Accounting”

by Robert Frost:

Never ask of money spent

Where the spender thinks it went.

Nobody was ever meant

To remember or invent

What he did with every cent.


With thanks to Emily Coltman for flagging this up.

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