Pluck thou now the Good Resolution from the topmost bough of the sublime tree of righteous will; and preserve it as the apple of gold in the silver pictures of the life that has no ending.
Sighs and Songs.
Don't begin your sighing
When you see the snows;
Yonder blooms the lily;
Yonder burns the rose!
What's the use to shiver
When the blizzards blow?
Yonder blazes August
Hotter than you know!
Hope is ever ringing
All the bells she brings;
Keep a life of laughter
And a heart that sings.
Good-bye to the trouble!
Farewell to the wrong!
Man forgets the sorrow
When he sings a song!