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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 3, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 9.

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The Home Circle.

LITTLE WORRIES.

Though many ills may hamper life When fortune turns capricious, The great but nerve us for the strife— The small ones make us vicious. Fierce griefs are soon outstripped by one Who through existence scurries; It's harder far a race to run With nimble "little worries."
A button bids your shirt good-bye When late for dinner dressing; You have a kite you cannot fly, And creditors are pressing. You run to catch—and lose—a train (That fatalest of hurries); Your newest hat encounters rain— Life's full of "little worries."
From day to day some silly things Upset you altogether; There's naught so soon convulsion brings As tickling with a feather. 'Gainst minor evils let him pray Who fortune's favor curries; For one that big misfortunes slay, Ten die of "little worries."