IF WE ONLY UNDERSTOOD.
If we knew the care aud trials, Knew the efforts all in vain, And the bitter disappointment, Understood the loss and gain— Would the grim, eternal roughness Seem —I wonder —just the same? Should we help where we now hinder ? Should we pity where we blame ? Ah ! we judge each other harshly! Knowing not life’s hidden force; Knowing not the fount of action Is less turbid at its soiree : Seeing not amid the evil All the golden grains of good ; And we’d love each other better If we only understood. Could we draw back the curtains That surround each other’s lives, See the naked heart and spirit, Know what spur the action gives, Often w r e should find it belter, Purer than we judge w T e should. We should love each other better If we only understood. Could we judge all deeds by motives, See the good and bad within, Often we should love the sinner All the while we loathe the sin, Could we know the' powers working To overthrow integrity, We should judge each other’s errors With more patient charity. Rudyarp Kipuno.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 451, 2 March 1909, Page 4
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190IF WE ONLY UNDERSTOOD. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 451, 2 March 1909, Page 4
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