Show childhoods LAUGH you talk of ane beautiful ong that TS 01 ler 3 bright but tes nothing so sweet to my hearing by aa sa own musac to ild hoods light I 1 sometimes have felt in the gloomiest gloo mood and over my sorrows would bother and brood and just as I 1 thought to rive way to despair A ripple of laughter broke forth on the air the laugh Is contagious the sweet little elf and before I 1 quite know it am laughing myself this the golden elixir of gladness we quaff i for theres nothing so merry as childhoods licht laugh and the gloom has all vanished tn vapor and mist As the clouds by the sunshine when suddenly kissed and I 1 listen as one who of heaven feels halt to the rippling music of childhoods light laugh oh friends have not you felt the same glad effect when the trials of the household have happiness wrecked when the day kept growing and seemed you were where your burdens wera greater than you could well heart theres a charm in this child laugh known by no word theres a falth feeling from stillness la stirred new lile seems to enter where hope had just died and content comes unbidden to be and abide our bouse cares seem softened our heart cares just halt for theres nothing so cheering as childhoods light laugh bosle F cappleman in detroit free press |