For love is the law and the creed;
And love is the aim and the goal
Of life, from the man to the mole.
The need of the world is love.
(1924)
LOVE UPLIFTING
Jacob Riis, in “The Making of an American,” brings from his Danish homeland a most beautiful and significant phrase. There is scant sunlight over there in the long, cold winters, and it is not easy to make plants grow. Yet the poor have their window-boxes and winter blossoms, nevertheless, and their tender winter lesson. For when they speak of their flowers they do not say that they have been grown; instead, with finest insight, they say that they have been “loved up.”
Almost any man can be “loved up.” So it is with the child, the waif of society.
(1925)
LOVE’S ACCEPTABLE OFFERING