Show LIFE IS A FIRE By DOUGLAS MALLOCH LIFE IFE Is a fire and memory the embers If It It be Joy or pain that one bers A little while the tho tIre fire flames and flashes It shall not be long before It all Is IsI ashes I We would not care 1 If car carp care would soon be over Alas the world has many a weary rover Within whose heart If 1 going or returning returning returning re re- turning Some ancient hurt keeps on forever burning Yet let love was ours and home and happy faces Yes Joy was ours In other times and places Love Lo quickly flames and nothing flames so brightly Or fades so soon 1 If love has loved too lightly We cant can't forget torget that some old vow was broken broken- Let us recall at least the vow was spoken The hand of ot time In time the hurt would soften soften- Perhaps we stir stir- the fires of at hate too often Life Is a n fire and memory the em embers bers If It It be Joy or pain that one re remembers remembers remembers members If It It be pain then leave YO the past pas pasito to perish If It It be bo Joy rekindle and Life Is la a n fire Ore and mortals must rebuild re rebuild build bund It Not with the pain but with the Joy by that tIlled filled It The coals of hate are not the coals coal for blowing But keep your hope your faith forever for ever glowing p 1932 Douglas Malloch Malloch S Service |