THIS LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.
Let's oftener talk of noble deeds, And rarer of the bad ones, And *ing about our happy days, And none about the sad ones. We were not made to fret and sigh, And when grief sleeps to wake it ; Bright happiness is standing by — This lite is what we make it. Let's find the snnny side of men, Or be believers in it ; A light there is in every uoul Tn.it take.-* the pain* to win it. Oh ! then;'-; a slumbering good in all, And s\ • pi'n;i\;mue in iy w.iku it ; Our hand-, omit uti th'j m.i^io w.ind — Tins life is wli.it we make it. Then her >J .s to tho^e w.'iose loving heurte Shed li.»bt and iov about them ! Tlunk-. be to them lor countless gjiu* We ii'-'er ha I known wit lout taein. Oh ! this should Ik- a hippy w »rld To all whti m iy partake it ; The fault's our own if it is not — Tnih life ib what we m ike it.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 80, 13 December 1884, Page 2
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173THIS LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 80, 13 December 1884, Page 2
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