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Show The Rhyming Optimist By Aline Michaelis. JUST SONG. IF some days nothing goes quite right and most thln. go quite wrong, tee If It won't relieve your plight to try a little song I hear you say. ' The foolish thought; how could It help me out when I am wholly on the blink If I should sing or shout"" Because I cannot prove to you by reason's clearest rays Just what the gltt of song will do, don't cast It from your days. And do not atop to moan about this fact I'm bringing you There's much that reason can't work out. but truth is always true. Just try my scheme when pluck has left and all your pep Is spent and you are feeling quite bereft of Joy and of content. It may be that a birdllko y voice was ne'er at your command and that your has would scarce rejoice the folks in opera grind. But do not let a trifllnpr thing liko this concern your heart. Jul open up your mouth and sing, you only need a start. It may be you've not sung for years, yet once tho plunge is made you will not want to shed salt tears or Join the gloom parade. You'll find uch Joy in singing sing-ing that you'll sing from morn 'till noon. "U'hen some one sits upon your hat. you'll sing a gladaomo tune. And likewise when tho first comes round and bills are piling In. whore once you would have wept and frowned, you now will sing and grin. For there is something In a song that carries cheer and glee, although your notes are mostly most-ly wrong and you've no harmony. |