Poems (Geisse)/Giving Advice
GIVING ADVICE.
The easiest task That a mortal can find, And pleasing, I think, To the average mind,
Is giving advice, For I need not explain, That it does not require A surplus of brain.
You see it is easy, So easy to mend The fortunes or faults Of our neighbors and friends.
We would do thus and so Had fate placed us like them,We complacently say, When we judge and condemn.
And we frequently show ourselves Narrow and mean,As censure grows fat, And compassion grows lean.
But we never can know How we really would act,Since theory is always So different from fact.