SOMEHOW OR OTHER.
Lifcshns a burden for everyone's shoulder, None may escape from its trouble and care ; Miss it in youth, and 'twill come -when we're older, And fit us as close as the garments we wear. Sorrow comes into our homes uninvited, Robbing the heart of its treasure of song ; Lovers grow cold, and our friendships^ are slighted. " Yet somehow or other we hasten along ! 'Mid the sweet blossoms that smile in our faces Grow the dank weeds that would poison and blight ; And c'en in themidst of earth's beautiful places There's always a something that isn't just right Yet oft from a rock we may pluck a gay flower, And drink from a spring in a desolate waste; They come to the heart like a heavenly dower, And nought is so sweet to the eye or the taste* Every-day toil is an every-day blessing, Though poverty's cottage and cruit we may share; Weak is the back on which burdens are pressing But stout is the heart that is strengthened by prayer. Somehow or other the pathways grow brighter, Just |when we mourned there was none to befriend. Hope in the heart makes the burden seem lighter, And somehow or other we get to the end !
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Tuapeka Times, Volume VIII, Issue 437, 24 February 1875, Page 3
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207SOMEHOW OR OTHER. Tuapeka Times, Volume VIII, Issue 437, 24 February 1875, Page 3
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