BE TRUE TO ONE ANOTHER.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 236, 21 March 1885, Page 8

BE TRUE TO ONE ANOTHER.

All our days are days of labour, And our nights a dreaming trancf, All our wakings but a vapour, And our visions but a glance. But. if true to one another Man would be a crowneJ king, And the woorthnds of the winter Would be like the sylvan spring. Be but true, and plianboin terrors, That alarm the timid mind, Shall be like the ancient errors, Scouted with the mircjh of time. Man to man, each bearing bravely Others' burdens to the goal : God made man to be a brother, Heart to heart and soul to soul. Be but true, and angels 1 wh'spers Shall eouie floating through the air, Like (he silver bells of vespers And the holy faith of prayer. Then enrich and build and strengthen Foeble he.irt and weakly hand, Thus a man shall be a brother, And a monarch in the land. But as yet lone, disunited, Fearing some and hating all, Life is like a grave of darkness, And our love is but. a pall ! For our hopes are but si mirage, And our faith a pissing cloud, All our prayers are mutt.ei-'d curses, And our friendship but a shroud. But if true to one another, bearing none and loving all, Life would be a summer garden — Eden-like before the Fall. Then our hopes would be a heaven, And our faith a shining rod, All our prayers be songs and praises, And our friendship, true to God. Then how bright would be our Eden, And how fair this eartli would bloom, Like a bed of summer roses, With the hyacinth's perfume. Then the passing clouds of sorrow Full of mercies would be spread, Making life a golden sunbeam, Till we slumber with the dead. [From " A Bunch of Wild Pansies " by W R. Wills.]

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