Show the winter of the heart let it never come upon you llop io GO that good anels an angels els eis may protect you from thir thip th terrible evil the winter of the heart let no chilling influence freeze fountain of sym sympathy pathy patty and happiness from its depths no cold burthen settle over its withered hopes like snow on the faded flowers no rude blasts of discontent moan abid arid shriek through its desolate chambers your life path may lead you amid trials which for a time seem entirely to impede your progress and shut out the very light of heaven from your anxious gaze 1 0 penury may take the pace of ease and plenty your luxurious home may be exchanged for a sin single ae lowly room the soft couch for the straw pallet the rich viands for the coarse food of the poor summer friends may max forsake you and the unpitying world pass wit with mai mak scarcely lay a word vord of compassion com you u may be forced to toil wearily steadily on to earn a livelihood you may encounter fraud and base avarice which would extort the last farthing till you boti well nigh turn in disgust from your fellow beings death may sever seve r the dear ties that bind you to earth and leave you in fearful darkness 4 the noble manly boy the sole hope of your I 1 declining years may be taken suddenly from you while your spirit clangs to him with a wild wild tenacity tenacity which even the shadow of the tomb cannot yah wholly olly subdue but amid all these sad trials and sorrows do not come to the conclusion that nobody was ever so deeply afflicted as a s you are arc and abandon every sweet anticipation of better bays days in the unknown future do not lose your faith in human excellence because your cong conf confidence identie ha has been betrayed nor believe that frend freni friendship ship is aprily a delusion and love a bright phantom which glides away way from your grasp do not think thinie you are fated to boe bo miserable because you are disappointed in I 1 your expectations and baffled in your pursuit do hot dot declare that god has forsaken you when your way is hedged with thorns or repine sinfully when lie he calls your dear ones to the land beyond the 1 I 1 grave l I 1 keep a holy trust truit li lo 10 heaven through h e every ver trial bear adversity with fortitude a and nd 1011 look upward in hours of temptation and suffering when your locks are white your eyes dim 1 and your limb when your steps falter on the verge of deaths gloomy vale vaie ethl retain the freshness and buoyancy of 8 spirit irit I 1 which will trill shield you from the winter Vinter odthe of the heart s I 1 I 1 |