“If you have gracious words to say

Oh, give them to our hearts to-day,

But if your words will cause us sorrow,

Pray keep them till the last to-morrow.”

High thoughts and noble in all lands

Help me: my soul is fed by such.

But ah, the touch of life and hands,

The human touch!

Warm, vital, close, life’s symbols dear,

These need I most, and now, and here.