When Faith and Hope leave a woman's heart, it is entirely empty of the graces; for Charity never had a home there.
Life and Love.
Life, and the trouble that comes along,—
Life and the griefs it carries;
But Love comes by with her lips of song,
And the joy that forever tarries!
Life and the love and the bliss supreme,—
Life and the smiles of gladness;
And the song she sings is a holy dream
Where the soul forgets the sadness!
Where Love Abides.
We walk in the present as roamed we the past,
With gladness before us and joys unsurpassed,
And Love lights the new days as Love lit the old,
With the smile of her joy and the laugh of her gold!
The world and its sorrows no longer supreme
Fade away in the smiles of the wonderful dream,
And the light of its love overshines the abode
Of the shadows that falleth on beautiful road.