Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-07-23 | Page 4 | A Riddle

A RIDDLE. Sometimfls Its value in great, indeed: We get it for nothing, day after day; It may coil us dearly, and yet wo plad With our friends to UV it, and turn away Oftlimes with doubts of tholr wisdom who Refuse to recelro it from us; -a-o scorn To think of its worth when our wants a'c few, r And we nnd it profitless when wo mourn, It lifts us high and it drags us low It loads to loro and It. fosters hato; It brings us Joy nnd it brings us woe. It loaves mea poor and It makes men groat. V need It most when ivo thinlc with pride That of all our needs it is least and last: lor the. lack of it many a man has died For taking it men to their graves have passed. A fool may give it and glvo It well, By wise men given It may be bad, And no man llrlng may hopo to toll How the gold It holds may bo always had. It may hare no worth when its price is great Its worth may bo great when it costs no price, Which wo lenrn, alas, when it is too late A"'1 wo carelessly call this thing Advice S. E. Klsor, in Chicago Record-Herald.