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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 22, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 25.

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The Joy of Life

By Priscilla Leonard

It wakes in the throat of the woodland bird In the rose-flushed hush of the morn; It gleams in the gold of the billowing wheat And the tasseled pride of the corn; It follows the feet of beauty and love, It stirs in the strength of the strong; And its light leaps up on the trampling field Where bravery battles with wrong; It sings through each deed that is nobly done, But sweetest, most undefiled, It shines to the world in the world-old way From the face of each little child. — Priscilla Leonard.