Happiness
Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems, 1916
- I ASKED the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell
- me what is happiness.
- And I went to famous executives who boss the work of
- thousands of men.
- They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though
- I was trying to fool with them
- And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along
- the Desplaines river
- And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with
- their women and children and a keg of beer and an
- accordion.
