Calm Faces

Calm Faces



Work well done and its just reward

sunshine, rest and love--these are the

desiderata of happiness. In one fashion or

another we see them somewhere afar

in our path;

and the vision keeps us in good

humor with the world and with

ourselves. "Sometime", we say, "we shall

come to our own--sometime".

And meanwhile life grows stiller and stiller,

rebellion settles to submission, great

ambitions turn to simple things.

Though we

have been roughly awakened from

the intoxication of youth's enchanted

visions, if we have learned our lesson well,

may we still find a cheering ray of light

in the shadows of evening, and go with calm

faces among our neighbors and our friends.