Brown’s Vacation
“I’ve had a vacation,” said Timothy Brown;
“A fine one, although I have not left the town.
I merely vacated my worries and fears,
And at once became younger by fairly five years.
I vacated my ruts, and began to enjoy
My regular, humdrum, but useful employ.
I changed my whole outlook and vision of life,
And made it a pastime instead of a strife.
I’ve had a vacation, not vacant, a bore,
But fuller and freer than ever before;
The best of vacations for fat purse or lean, -
A change of the seeing instead of the scene.”
by Amos R. Wells: “The Collected Poems of Amos R. Wells” (1921)
Amos Russel Wells was born on 23 December 1862 in Glens Falls, Warren County, New York, United States of America. He became a college professor, an editor, a poet, and a writer. Amos Russel Wells passed on at 70 years of age on 6 March 1933 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America.
“I’ve had a vacation,” said Timothy Brown;
“A fine one, although I have not left the town.
I merely vacated my worries and fears,
And at once became younger by fairly five years.
I vacated my ruts, and began to enjoy
My regular, humdrum, but useful employ.
I changed my whole outlook and vision of life,
And made it a pastime instead of a strife.
I’ve had a vacation, not vacant, a bore,
But fuller and freer than ever before;
The best of vacations for fat purse or lean, -
A change of the seeing instead of the scene.”
by Amos R. Wells: “The Collected Poems of Amos R. Wells” (1921)
Amos Russel Wells was born on 23 December 1862 in Glens Falls, Warren County, New York, United States of America. He became a college professor, an editor, a poet, and a writer. Amos Russel Wells passed on at 70 years of age on 6 March 1933 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States of America.
