I thank the Lord for lips that smile,

I thank the Lord for heart that sings.

If I in life’s uncertain while

With word or song or cheery rime

Can light some pilgrim’s dreary mile,

I thank the Lord that I have time.

THE SKY PILOT

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men.—Jeremiah IX:2.

By the wall of the busy city,

In the midst of the market place,