SOMETHING TO LOVE

By William Bansman

There are beautiful thoughts in the day-dreams of life,

When youth and ambition join hands for the strife;

There are joys for the gay, which come crowding apace,

And hang out the rainbow of hope for the race;

There are prizes to gain, which ascend as we climb,

But the struggle to win them makes effort sublime.

Each cloud that arises has fingers of gold,

Inviting the timid and nerving the bold;