Show tenderness not unto every heart Is gods good gift of simple tenderness allowed we meet with love in many fashions when we lift first to our ups lifes waters bitter ajeet love cornea upon us with resistless power of passion and with headstrong will it plays around WIG aprils breeze and shower or calmly flows a rapid stream and still it comes with blessedness unto the heart that welcomes it aright corbitter or bitter fate it wrings the bosom with so fierce a smart that love we cry Is crueler than hate and then ah met when love has ceased to bless our broken hearts cry out for tenderness we ion tor tenderness ailtee that which hung about us lying on bur mothers breast A selfish feeling that no pen or tongue can praise aright since silence sings it best A lore aa far removed from passions heat As from the chillness of its dying fire A love to lean on when the falling feet berin to totter and the eyes to tire in youths brief heyday hottest love we seek ane reddest rose we grasp but when it dies god grant that later blossoms violets meek may spring for us beneath lifes autumn sides god grant some loving one be near to bless our weary way with simple tenderness all the year hound |