ALWAYS A SOMETHING.
Hxt« i» always a somethlnej; ghat earn your lot; 'And, oh! how that somethiag aanoyal Though the merest of specks. K beeoaea a big- blot—'A pang- at the heart of your joys. ■What matter* the manifold rSeeaaagi you've sot. If there's one little aloud la tbe Muef ■bar* is always a something. What—ej your lot, • 'Aafllf U'aaoiocathmej aratwot' « < m it wasn't Sot soaeeeJo* Ml In « Ml out. Our happiness would be eoaapUte; TU the lack of on* room that we wosew , about. Or the dwelling ia on the wrong- street If we only were thin, if we only were stout, tt we had something different to do: There is always a something- left in or left out, 'Aba if It's not on* th!n«-!t'« two! There is always a something, as nHsln as fate, 'A fly in the ointment we meet; Tbe rich and the poor, and the lowly and great, Find bitter mixed in with the sweet. for each has an If with his neighbors to make, 'And it follows this changing life through; There is always a something, as certain as fate, ■tad if it's cot one thing—it's two! —Hunter Mac Culloch, in N. Y. Weekly.
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 351, 29 January 1903, Page 8
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200ALWAYS A SOMETHING. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 351, 29 January 1903, Page 8
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