Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="BE_GOOD_AND_GLAD" id="BE_GOOD_AND_GLAD"></SPAN>Be Good and Glad</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">W</span>HY do you sigh as days go by,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And carry such a weight of sadness?<br/></span> <span class="i0">To wistful eyes, the hot tears rise&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">Yet life holds store of joy and gladness.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The sunbeams gay are out to-day,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Then worry not about to-morrow,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Nor shrink, nor start with beating heart,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Nor grave fears for the future borrow.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Let us not weep when shadows deep<br/></span> <span class="i2">About our pathway seem to gather,<br/></span> <span class="i0">But go our way, without dismay,<br/></span> <span class="i2">For children we&mdash;the Lord our Father.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I hold there must be faith and trust&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i2">For others’ sins a full forgiving&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">The greeting glad for sick and sad,<br/></span> <span class="i2">If we would taste the joys of living.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The sunlight streams, the old world dreams,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And by-and-by the stars will glimmer,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The lamps that swung when earth was young<br/></span> <span class="i2">Yet have not older grown, or dimmer.<br/></span> <span class="i0">And blind we are, or we would see<br/></span> <span class="i2">This lesson in the skies above us;<br/></span> <span class="i0">That all the way, by night or day,<br/></span> <span class="i2">God watchful is, since He doth love us.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_179" id="page_179"></SPAN>{179}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />