TweetYou can’t paint black and not get black, No matter how hard you try. You may paint with care, but the stains are there, And stay when the paint is dry. You can’t fool around where the sinner’s found, Make friends of the foolish kind, But it leaves some taint, like the mark of paint, [...]

TweetHere’s a great poem I chanced upon recently: If You Have A Friend If you have a friend worth loving, Love him. Yes, and let him know That you love him, ere life’s evening Tinge his brow with sunsets glow. Why should good words ne’er be said Of a friend–till he is dead? If you [...]

TweetFollow Thou Me Have you looked for sheep in the desert, For those who have missed their way? Have you been in the wild waste places, Where the lost and the wandering stray? Have you trodden the lonely highway, The foul and the darksome street? It may be you’d see in the gloaming The print [...]

TweetIf You Were Busy Being Kind If you were busy being kind, Before you knew it you would find You’d soon forget to think ’twas true That someone was unkind to you. If you were busy being glad And cheering people who seem sad, Although your heart might ache a bit, You’d soon forget to [...]

TweetThe Grumble Family There’s a family nobody likes to meet; They live, it is said, on Complaining Street In the city of Never-Are-Satisfied, The River of Discontent beside. They growl at that and they growl at this; Whatever comes, there is something amiss; And whether their station be high or humble, They are all known [...]

TweetThe Purpose of Life If you’ve never made another Have a happier time in life; If you’ve never helped a brother Through his struggle and his strife; If you’ve never been a comfort To the weary and the worn– Will you tell us what you’re here for In this lovely land of morn? If you’ve [...]

TweetUninstructed “I am going to send you down to earth,” Said God to me one day, “I’m giving you what men call ‘birth’– Tonight you’ll start away; I want you there to live with men; Until I call you back again.” I trembled as I heard him speak, Yet I know that I must go; [...]