A Sonnet of Luck and Lies (Shakespearean)

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A Sonnet of Luck and Lies (Shakespearean)
<p>After more than two weeks without posting, here's an English sonnet to help myself come round to an idea, which is, hopefully, well expressed in the heroic couplet at the end of this sonnet.</p>
<p>Just because you're not in pain, it doesn't mean you don't need a hug or a word of love.  And just because you get the hug and the love, it doesn't mean you won't have to make an effort to thrive (regardless the price).</p>
<center><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281825-1905%29_-_The_Difficult_Lesson_%281884%29.jpg/397px-William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281825-1905%29_-_The_Difficult_Lesson_%281884%29.jpg" alt=""/><br/><i>"The Difficult Lesson" (1884) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Image in the Public Domain (Wikimedia Commons) </i></center>

<p></p>
<p>They think you’re
lucky in your older day, </p>
<p>for all the efforts of
a younger life</p>
<p>have paid you fortune,
fruit and health—they say—,</p>
<p>a caring company, husband or wife.</p>
<p></p>
<p>---</p>
<p>They think those ones
with lesser luck need more</p>
<p>kindheartedness and
room to misbehave;</p>
<p>they should be spoiled
for they have been so poor;</p>
<p>meanwhile you take your riches to the grave.</p>
<p></p>
<p>---</p>
<p>Such greater luck it
is to be hardworking,</p>
<p>and skip the parties
to complete your task,</p>
<p>and bypass hell and
all the vices lurking,</p>
<p>and give to whom will always need and ask.</p>
<p>---</p>
<p>Commiseration is
sometimes all love,</p>
<p>which always keeps
most capable above.</p>
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