Kate Beamish - Seize Every Chance

We pass this way just once, it’s said,
and short the time before we’re dead.
All too few are the days of bliss,
ensure there are none of them you miss.
Seize every chance as it comes along,
greet every day as the lark – with song.

Kate Beamish

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