Hér er lítið fallegt ljóð:

Ef allt þetta fólk fær í gullsölum himnanna gist
sem gerir sér mat úr að nudda sér utan í Krist,
þá hlýtur sú spurning að vakna hvort mikils sé misst
ef maður að síðustu lendir í annari vist.
Jón Helgason

There was a young man from Cape Horn
who wished he had never been born
and he would't have been
if his father had seen
that the top of the rubber was torn.