Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis - Birthday Honours lyrics

My natal day was yesterday; And so I said to Fate, 'What gifts bring you, by one, by two, To ease my parlous state?' 'I proffer blindly,' Fate replied, From chance-found joys and ills. For you, the 'flu; and this beside, A sheaf of monthly bills.' My natal day was yesterday; And so I said to Chance, 'What gifts bring you, by one, by two, My fortunes to enhance?' Said Chance, 'I bring no obvious thing. Unguessed escape bring I From dangers rife alway in life That closely pa** you by.' My natal day was yesterday; And so I said to Life, 'What gifts bring you, by one, by two, To salve me in the strife?' But Life said, 'Nought. Long since I brought My gifts, glum misanthrope; And these for you I here renew; Myself and human hope.'