One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.
Public domain. This passage is in the public domain. Frances Hodgson Burnett died in 1924, more than 70 years ago, and the work was first published in 1911. You can copy, print, read aloud or sell it without asking permission; a credit is kind but not required. The text is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg edition linked here.
“Dear old world,” she murmured, “you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
“Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them,” exclaimed Anne. “You mayn’t get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.”
Life has loveliness to sell,All beautiful and splendid things,Blue waves whitened on a cliff,Soaring fire that sways and sings,And children's faces looking upHolding wonder like a cup.
The world is so full of a number of things,I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Where you tend a rose, my lad,A thistle cannot grow.
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