Explore "Jim and Bill" by Franklin P. Adams on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Bill Jones was cynical and sad; / He thought sincerity was rare; / Most people, Bill believed, were bad / And few were fair.
He said that cheating was the rule; / That nearly everything was fake; / That nearly all, both knave and fool, / Were on the make.
Jim Brown was cheerful as the sun; / He thought the world a lovely place, / Exhibiting to every one / A smiling face.
He thought that every man was fair; / He had no cause to sob or sigh; / He said that everything was square / As any die.
Dear reader, would you rather be / Like Jim, not crediting the ill, / Joyous in your serenity, / Or right, like Bill?