Show NOT IN VAIN by DOUGLAS MALLOCH the world will not be hard to leave if I 1 have set myself a wk task and abid finished it I 1 need meed not grieve nor need another day to ask if I 1 shall leave a better land A fairer city gladder heart or minds that better understand when I 1 depart if ibave taken but a patch of idle made it bloom blooT rf have built one house of brick or thatch A mansion or a single room 1 l if I 1 have tried triad to be a friend have made one life abit a bit more fair ut when all these things are atan end I 1 need not care this only makes the leaving sad to look across a desert waste of opportunities I 1 had and idly spurned or passed in haste to think the world that men of worth b had labored for so sd willingly Is not a little better earth bee because ause of me I 1 must reorganize my life must take some gome part if great or small in some good cause some col common fimon strife to serve the common good of all then when at last I 1 must resign this life with all its joys and pain I 1 may go bravely knowing mine was not in vain the rotarian |