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Oh, Why Not Be Happy?[1]

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("A quoi bon entendre les oiseaux?")     [RUY BLAS, Act II.]     Oh, why not be happy this bright summer day,     'Mid perfume of roses and newly-mown hay?     Great Nature is smiling - the birds in the air     Sing love-lays together, and all is most fair.         Then why not be happy         This bright summer day,         'Mid perfume of roses         And newly-mown hay?     The streamlets they wander through meadows so fleet,     Their music enticing fond lovers to meet;     The violets are blooming and nestling their heads     In richest profusion on moss-coated beds.         Then why not be happy         This bright summer day,         When Nature is fairest         And all is so gay?     LEOPOLD WRAY.

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