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Show IS IT WORTH WHILE By Joaquin Miller. Is it worth while that we jostle a brother Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worth while that We jeer at -each other In blackness of heart? that we war to the knife? 1 God pity us all in our pitiful strife. God pity us all as we jostle each other; God pardon us all for the triumphs we feel When a fellow goes down; poor, heart-broken brother, 9 Pierced to the heart; words are keener than I steel, 1 And mightier, far, for woo ana for weal. 1 Were it not well in this brief little journey . On over the isthmus, down into the tide, I We give him a fish instead of a serpent, Ere folding the hands to be and abide For ever and aye, in dust at his side? Look at the roses saluting each other; Look at the herds all at peace on the plain Man, and man only, makes war on his brother, And dotes in his heart on his peril and pain Shamed by the brutes that go down on the plain. |