“If happy I and wretched he,
Perhaps the king would change with me.”
Charles Mackay (1814–1889) British writer
"Differences" in The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay (1859).
“I wear the cap and he the crown;—
What of that?
I sleep on straw and he on down;—
What of that?
And he's the king and I'm the clown;—
What of that?
If happy I, — and wretched he, —
Perhaps the king would change with me!”
"Differences", V
The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay (1859)
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