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Show o HAVE COURAGE TODAY If grabbed by tho hand of misfortune somo day, And bidden to wander along in that way, Whero all Isn't pleasant and happy nnd gay, Sit not down to weep and complain. With a smllo on your face, Proceed with tho chase, Thoughts kindred to fear from your vision ernso, And run to tho turn in tho lano. Life's pathway as mapped Is an up hill affair: Of pulling nnd pushing wo all havo 'our share i 13 ut 'tis said tho back tho burden can bear, That is you know, it it will. Yot somo sit and frot, Or clasp hands with regret, And sny of their welfaro oven God may forgot, Thus giving to folly Its fill. True courngo from weaklings can never bo hurled; Llko a worm entcn rosebud that novor uncurled, Dut fell fro mtts stem ns n whole, Tho goodness nnd worth, That waited for birth, Wore burled in graves, tho' not of this earth, But sopulchers dug in the soul. O'er yesterday's failures spread cour- ago today. Step mindfully over tho stones on your way, God's mngnltudo keeps us as children at play; Scarco nblo to walk yet nlono. Hut to smtlo nnd to sing, Is h wonderful thing; And will hehl whnt perchnnco was yesterday's sting. Till our failures nnd faults nro out grown. Sarah H. Mltton. |