Poetry.
WORTH WHILE. (By Ella Wheeler Wilcox.) It is easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song, But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong; For the test of the heart is trouble, And it always comes with the years. And the smile that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears. It is easy enough to be prudent When nothing tempts you to stay; When without or within no voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue Until it is tried by fire. And the life that is worth the honour of earth Is the one that resists desire. By the cynic, the sad, the fallen, Who had no strength for the strife, The world’s highway is cumbered to-day ; They make up the item of life. But the virtue that conquers passion, And the sorrow that hides in a smile, It is these that are worth the homage of earth For we find them but once in a while.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 January 1894, Page 12
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184Poetry. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 January 1894, Page 12
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