"IF LOVE WERE ALWAYS LAUGHTER."
If lovewere .always' laughter And'grief were, al^ 'ays tears . With • nothing to cori| e after :To : mark the waiting years, I'd pray a'life of j oye to you, Sent down from heaW n above to you, And never grief com! >' near to you. To spread its shadow, ,;dear, to, you, . If love' were always laughter . And grief'wero ali ways tears, ' ' But grief brings of!) an laughter, And love, ah, love brings tears! . And both leave ever J. after Their blessings on j the years; < ' So" I, dear heart, woii Id suo for you, A mingling, of'tho ti ,-o foT you, That-gTief may lend .'i te calm to you, love may send its; balm to you— ' ..For grief brings of) en laughter • And love brings {often tears. ' r-Annie Johnston i Crim, in the ' ' "Centurjr." ■ ' ,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1031, 21 January 1911, Page 13
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