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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 16, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 37.

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Better Things

By George Macdonald

BETTER to feel a love within Than ’be lovely to the sight, Better a homely tenderness Than beauty’s wild delight.
Better to love than to be beloved, Though lonely all the day; Better the fountain in the heart Than the fountain by the way.
Better to be a little wise Than learned overmuch, Better than high are lowly thoughts, For truthful thoughts are such.
Better to have a quiet grief Than a tumultuous joy; Better than manhood age’s face, If the heart be of a boy.
Better a death when work is done Than earth’s most favored birth; Better a child in God’s great house, Than the king of all the earth.
—George Macdonald.