Feel glum? Keep mum.
Don't grumble. Be humble.
Trials cling? Just sing.
Can't sing? Just cling.
Don't fear--God's near!
Money goes--He knows.
Honor left--Not bereft.
Don't rust--Work! Trust!
--Ernest Bourner Allen.
A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead;
In filling love's infinite store,
A rose to the living is more,
If graciously given before
The hungering spirit is fled--
A rose to the living is more
Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
--Nixon Waterman.
Canst thou see no beauty nigh?
Cure thy dull, distempered eye.
Canst thou no sweet music hear?
Tune thy sad, discordant ear.
Earth has beauty everywhere
If the eye that sees is fair.
Earth has music to delight
If the ear is tuned aright.
--Nixon Waterman.
Anew we pledge ourselves to Thee,
To follow where thy Truth shall lead;
Afloat upon its boundless sea,
Who sails with God is safe indeed.
O, though oft depressed and lonely
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died.
It was only a glad "Good morning,"
As she passed along the way;
But it spread the morning's glory
Over the livelong day.
For the right against the wrong,
For the weak against the strong,
For the poor who've waited long,
For the brighter age to be.