Give My Soul A Heavenly Hush
Let me tarry as I go;
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Morning Song
Every morning when you rise
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Life's Lessons.....Author Unknown
I learn, as the years roll onward
The clouds that cover sunshine
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A Better Me
The me I wish that I could be
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Count That Day Lost
If you sit down at set of sun
But if, through all the livelong day,
by Gail Blanton
if not my feet, my heart be slow.
As I run from rush to rush
give my soul a heavenly hush...
That I may touch instead of shove,
That I may see those needing love.
In passing may I leave a glow;
of kindly words that help peace grow.
by Joan Stephen
Sing some merry song;
The one that is the cheeriest
And brightens up the dawn.
Make a smile that's happy
With eyes that ever gleem
And always keep your spirit
Prepared for every dream.
And leave the past behind,
That much I had counted sorrow
But proves that God is kind;
That many a flower I had longed for
Had hidden a thorn of pain,
And many a rugged bypath
Led to fields of ripened grain.
They cannot bannish the sun;
And the earth shines out the brighter
When the weary rain is done.
We must stand in the deepest shadow
To see the clearest light;
And often through wrong's own darkness
Comes the very strength of light.
by Hilda Sanderson
Would never harm a soul,
Could never speak in angry tones,
Or have a selfish goal,
And no more wrong or harmful deeds
I'd ever want to do,
If this perfect ideal me
Could be a picture true.
The me I wish I could become
Will never really be,
But simply wanting such a thing
Will make a better me.
by George Eliot
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went...
Then you may count that day well spent.
You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay...
If, through it all
You've nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face...
No act so small
That helped some soul and nothing cost...
Then count that day as worse than last.
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