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Show iF 11 ' a f" I Rippling Rhymes By WALT MASON I , 'J THIS GOOD WORLD. This world is good in which we dwell, I 1 1 let 1 he blamed thing mighty well, and I have lived here long; as down my long life path I go I find eight joys for every woe, nine rights for every ev-ery wrong. Oh, now and then there comes a day when everything seems grim and gray, and badly out of plumb; but calm reflection brings me bliss for every rotten day like this, six happy hap-py days will come. The opt 'mist is one who knows that joys outnumber human woes, when balances are struck, and so. with sunshine in his heart, he labors in the busy mart, and nalls the useful buck He docs not worry o'er the grief that comes to l.im as a relief when happiness grows State; no man could stand unchanging bHss; a slice of grief we soon would Oiiss, if there wen- none for sale. The pessimist is one who" mark a record of each day that's dark, its minutes and its houTs, and he'll forget the cheerful day.-, when all ibe landscape is ablaze with sunshine and with flowers flow-ers lie thinks that there are nineteen woes for every joy a mortal knows, in 1 which he';, sadly wrong; I know the good outweighs the ill. and knowledge should my counsels fill, for I have 'lived here long 00 |