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Show JUST FOLKS I By tdgmr A. Onwi 4 THE WAY Or OTHERS. Others have shown to me the way H To bear the burdens of tlie day. This task or mine Is nothing new. I Other have had this work to do, Others 'nave suffered Here nnd wept J And faithful to their purpose kept. Thi Is mv time, to meet the test, B And 1 must face It as the rdst. Time was I thought that I might mi- So terrible a task as this! Mlcii go through I f,- and never know The weight of care or hurt of woe, And once I fancied when I fep 1 .v.rov- mj back illsasler s welt. 1 'Ihat I vvas meeting there alone H Such stings as no one else had known. H I cried aloud against mv pain. But found mj whimpering all in vain. 1 And then i leard a voice declare: "Vour lot Is what all men must bean Others have wepl the time .von smllrd. 1 Borne i;rief and have been reconcile v. As they have done, so must you do hen care ami sorrow come to you." Put that was In the years ago. And sine, that time 1 VS COme to know That no on this earth escapes l-'rom liial In H various shapes, No Is singled out to fare Along life's way exembt from rare, And I would see my trlaN through As bravely as the o'her? |