SUNBEAMS.

Welcome, cheerful sunbeams!

Welcome, to my room!

When you come, you always

Drive away the gloom.

Life would be less dreary,

Did we let the beam

Of the sun, more freely,

O’er our pathway gleam.

While we drop the curtain

To shut out its ray,

Nature’s voice is saying

“Bask in it alway.”

O, then let us cherish

Every sunny ray!

So that when there cometh,

As there will, a day

When the sun is hidden,

And the clouds are drear,

We may from past sunbeams,

Gather hope and cheer.