A WISH
Do you wish the world were better ? Let me tell you what to do : Set a watch upon your actions, Keep them always straight and true; j-vid your mind of selfish motives, Let your thoughts be clean and high You can make a little heaven Of the sphere you occupy. Do you wish the world were wiser ? Well, suppose you make a start By accumulating wisdom In the scrap-book of your heart. Do not waste one page on folly ; Live to learn and learn to live; If you want to give men knowledge You must get it ere you give. Do you wish the world were happy ? Tiien remember day by day Just to scatter seeds of kindness As you pass along the way ; For the pleasure of the many May ofttimes be traced to one; As the hand that plants the acorn Shelters armies, from the sun.
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New Zealand Tablet, 13 February 1913, Page 61
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150A WISH New Zealand Tablet, 13 February 1913, Page 61
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