<h2><SPAN name="page60"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>THE LAND OF CONTENT</h2>
<p class="poetry">I set out for the Land of Content,<br/>
By the gay crowded pleasure-highway,<br/>
With laughter, and jesting, I went<br/>
With the mirth-loving throng for a day;<br/>
Then I knew I had wandered astray,<br/>
For I met returned pilgrims, belated,<br/>
Who said, “We are weary and sated,<br/>
But we found not the Land of Content.”</p>
<p class="poetry">I turned to the steep path of fame,<br/>
I said, “It is over yon height—<br/>
This land with the beautiful name—<br/>
Ambition will lend me its light.”<br/>
But I paused in my journey ere night,<br/>
For the way grew so lonely and troubled;<br/>
I said—my anxiety doubled—<br/>
“This is not the road to Content.”</p>
<p class="poetry"><SPAN name="page61"></SPAN><span class="pagenum">p.
61</span>Then I joined the great rabble and throng<br/>
That frequents the moneyed world’s mart;<br/>
But the greed, and the grasping and wrong,<br/>
Left me only one wish—to depart.<br/>
And sickened, and saddened at heart,<br/>
I hurried away from the gateway,<br/>
For my soul and my spirit said straightway.<br/>
“This is not the road to Content.”</p>
<p class="poetry">Then weary in body and brain,<br/>
An overgrown path I detected,<br/>
And I said “I will hide with my pain<br/>
In this byway, unused and neglected.”<br/>
Lo! it led to the realm God selected<br/>
To crown with His best gifts of beauty,<br/>
And through the dark pathway of duty<br/>
I came to the land of Content.</p>
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