FROTH AND BUBBLE

1. Life is mostly froth and bubble.
   Two things stand like stone:
   Kindness in another´s troubles,
   Courage in your own.

   Thank you, Adam, for writing those lines.
   They were some of your best and most of us agree
   That you put things in a nutshell.
   And that´s the secret of poetry.  

   They are touching, quiet words of the edifying kind  
   And I´ve put them to music, I hope that´s okay.
   If you turn in your grave, I´m sorry,
   But it’s too late to ask you now.

   Life is mostly froth and bubble.
   Two things stand like stone:
   Kindness in another´s troubles,
   Courage in your own.

   I´d like to ask you, Adam, a question or two
   About your inner life and what went on in your mind.
   I read about your difficult childhood,
   About your love for horses.

   Well, you rode out one morning in June 1870.
   You were only 37 and put an end to your story.
   I have a picture of a loner,
   Just a man and his horse and a rifle.

   Life is mostly froth and bubble.
   Two things stand like stone:
   Kindness in another´s troubles,
   Courage in your own.

   Courage in your own.