Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-13 | Page 4 | Just Folks

JUST FOLKS By EDGAR A. A GUEST Copyright i 1032 by Edgar A A. Guest Ouest PAST EXPERIENCE Those who believed in pomp and power I And gold and luxury held on I In Rome until the fatal hour When all they'd treasured most was gone Not once but time and time again Have boastful nations grown too great Found all their selfish conquests vain J Against the rising tides of fate The lessons ons of bf f the past arc are not So difficult to read or learn That they so coon toon should be forgot As round and round the cycles turn not in culture not in pride Or arn armies es vast long safety lies The race turned too self self satisfied satisfied Revels in luxury and dies The man to fortune wholly bent Crumbles beneath his ponderous tasks And finding his nervous system spent A quick release from life he asks ks The things of or permanence arc wrought In simpler views of right and wrong In gentle ways and kindly thought And all aU that mak makes the spirit strong