SIMPLE JOY.
An American poet named John Kendiick Bangs recently published in the Atlantic Monthly a short poem on “ Simple Joy” : To day, whatever may annoy, The word for me is Joy, just simple Joy; The joy of life ; The joy of children and of wife ; The joy of bright blue skies; The joy of rain; the glad surprise Of twinkling stars that shine at night; The joy of winged things upon their flight; The joy of noon day, and the tired True joyousness of eventide ; The joy of labour, and of mirth; The joy of air, and sea, and earth — The countless joys that ever flow from Him Whose vast beneficence doth dim The lustrous light of day, And lavish gifts divine upon our way. Whate’er there be of Sorrow I’ll put off till To-morrow, And when To-morrow comes, why then ’Twill be To-day, and Joy again!
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 381, 5 May 1908, Page 4
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148SIMPLE JOY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 381, 5 May 1908, Page 4
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