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Show Would You Have the World Be Kind? Would you have the world be kind? I Then be kindV yourself ! ! Hide not gifts of heart or mind ! -On the future's shelf-Give shelf-Give what you can spare, and more, I.'rom today'a most precious store. Would you meet with truth? Thcnruth ' You must proffer first. Life hath need of grace and ruth, But. through best and woust, .Truth's .gold passes, clear and straight, And is always worth its weight: Would you honor gain? Be swift " To give honor due; The deservingto unlift. ' Crown the crowned hiipw With the laurels they have won whatever work, well done. Would you be beloved? Then love! And he sure of this Whatso'cr life's gifts may prove, '.All that was, or is fJrand, or dear, or fair, is less Than Love's matchelss loveliness! . . . Madeline Bridges. |