Poems

POEMS

(1)

"Somebody said that it couldn't be done

 But he with a chuckle replied,

 That ' maybe it couldn't ' , but he would be one

 Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried;

 So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin

 On his face, if he worried he hid it.

 He started to sing as he tackled the thing 

 That couldn't be done and he did it."

(2)

"Once in Persia reigned a king

Who upon his signet ring

Graved a maxim true and wise,

which if held before the eyes

Gave him counsel at a glance,

Fit for every change and chance

Solemn words , and these are they:

Even this shall pass away."

(3)

"Here's a sigh to those to those who love me

And a smile for those who hate;

And Whatever sky's above me,

There's a heart for every fate."

(4)

"Till the sun grows cold,

And the stars are old,

And the leaves of the Judgement, 

Book unfold."

(5)

"There is so much good in the worst of us

And so much bad in the best of us,

That it ill behooves any of us

To find fault with the rest of us."

(6)

"In men whom others condemn as ill,

I find so much of goodness still;

In men whom others pronounce divine,

I find so much of sin and blot;

I do not dare to draw a line

Between the two, where God has not."

(7)

"If your lips would keep from slips

Five things observe with care;

To whom you speak, of whom you speak,

And how, and when, and where."

(8)

"A glory gilds the sacred page,

Majestic like the sun;

It gives a light to every age,

It gives but borrows none."