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  • NEVER mind a change of scene
    Try a change of thinking.
    28 lines
  • IF you must sit and sigh,
    And have the blues,
    12 lines
  • WHEN I've a quarrel in my mind
    With one who's far away,
    8 lines
  • WORRY stalked along the road,
    Trouble sneaking after;
    13 lines
  • IF there's no Sun, I still can have the Moon ;
    If there's no Moon, the Stars my needs suffice ;
    5 lines
  • I DREAMED last night a Spirit came to me
    And placed within my hand the golden key
    13 lines
  • NO bay for me that critics may deny
    In distant ages ; no position high
    18 lines
  • "DON'T CARE" is no friend of mine.
    I "don't care" for him.
    38 lines
  • IF any round about me play,
    And dance and sing in glad array,
    13 lines
  • IF an unkind word appears,
    File the thing away.
    21 lines
  • SPIED a bit of Care today
    Looked as black as anything,
    8 lines
  • FROM earth, and sky, and sea,
    Let cheer come unto me,
    15 lines
  • ICE and snow are cold, I know
    Pain and sorrow too are chill.
    18 lines
  • I HAVE a song within my heart that I shall never sing.
    I know 'tis there for I can feel its joyous fluttering.
    6 lines
  • IT seemed to be but chance, yet who shall say
    That ’t was not part of Nature ’s own sweet way,
    14 lines
  • THY span of life was all too short—
      A week or two at best—
    8 lines
  • SHOW me your God the doubter cries.
    I point him out the smiling skies;
    17 lines
  • BEGIN the day with smiling eyes ;
    Pursue the day with smiling lips;
    13 lines
  • The ghosts of all things past parade,
    Emerging from the mist and shade
    22 lines
  • I met a little Elf-man, once, 
      Down where the lilies blow. 
    9 lines, 2 comments
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