tear
Laughs and sorrows through the year!
Pages dark and pages fair
Each to each are wedded there,
And no sage e'er understood
What was evil, what was good!

II.

Close the life and put it by!
It was made of song and sigh,
It was made of smiles and tears
And the struggles of the years!
Days of dark and days of fair
Closely came and blended there,
And but He who judges could
Know the evil and the good!

Every day and hour from which Love witholds her smiles and hides her
happy face is a desert path in the rose-fields of this life. Only he who
welcomes the laughing goddess to his heart and holds her dear hands
close with an abiding faith, receives that holy happiness discerning
souls call a success worth having.

Move Along.

Move along, brother!
The way may be long,
But yonder's the sunshine
And here is the song.

Move along, brother!
The rain-bow is red;
The clouds with the shadows
And darkness have fled.

Move along, brother!
The turn of the lane!
Here's laughing for weeping
And pleasure for pain!

The Sage.

Removed from pygmy ways afar,
He feels the heft of sun and star,--
He traces winding paths that go
Beyond the ways that dullards know,
And sails swift thoughts across the seas
Of God's unsailed immensities.

His vision sees the First and Last
To present smallness welded fast,
And he beholds with prophet eye
The brotherhood of earth and sky,
And, when Time's voyage wild is o'er
The lights upon the farther shore!

Still Onward.

What if the paths be dark and shadowed still
The summit roads and hope hides in eclipse!
Beyond the tangled ways that murmur ill
The touch of tender lips!

Forth on the dark ways though still darker grow
The paths before the groping finger-tips!
Beyond the shadow years our visions know
The touch of tender lips!

Finis.

A sigh and a song,
And a song and a sigh;
But the song helps along
To the sky bye and bye!

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