Can you Handel this?

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Gilbert & Sullivan has been speaking to me a bit recently

Posted 1 year ago

See how the Fates their gifts allot,
For A is happy – B is not.
Yet B is worthy, I dare say,
Of more prosperity than A!

Is B more worthy?
I should say
He’s worth a great deal more than A.

Yet A is happy!
Oh, so happy!
Laughing, Ha! ha!
Chaffing, Ha! ha!
Nectar quaffing, Ha! ha! ha!
Ever joyous, ever gay,
Happy, undeserving A!

(I don’t consider myself A in this situation btw)