Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-18 | Page 8 | Just Folks

r i t T. T i i l I r 1 I II IIi l i I i t. t 1 v WHY WE SUFFER Laughter and f sunshine and mirth Sorrow and heartache and pain Living our days on the earth These ever present remain Never Ne a join we can choose And the hurt of Its passing refuse Nothing from sorrow Is free Nothing is Js hopelessly bad The sinner repentant may be Restored to the place he once had The loss that we suite was sown In the soil where our 1 pleasure lea ure was grown Who smiles In the love lo of oC a friend Must carry with him through the year ear yearS S For the day when that friendship shall shaH end S An equal proportion of ot tears The richer the treasures we reap The bitterer some day well we'll weep You take no not a babe in your our arms Without risking the the pain of the day When your little ones one's glorious charms I Tom From your arms may be taken away And the things which most proudly you boast earthe B stings that shall hurt huit you ou the most We are creatures of ot possible pain We have naught that shall Rhall not pass away We Ve must give up whatever we gain Things eternal are not for the clay The that we love we must give Unto death that the spirit may live Copyright 1926 Ed Edgar ar A. A Guest I. I I