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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 16, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 7.

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The Commonplace

By Blanche Goodman

God bless the commonplace! We strain and fret Through wearisome and unproductive days, Striving to carve new destinies, or blaze A trail through unaccustomed lands. We let The feverish years possess us, and forget, In our tense seeking for untrodden ways, The common heritage, nor care to raise Altars to dear, familiar things — and yet When shadows lengthen, and the busy hum Of life falls faintly on half-hearing ears, With vision dimmed and feeble step we come Back to the homely joys of bygone years. Love, and a hearthstone, and a dear, worn face,— And through our tears we bless the commonplace!
— Blanche Goodman, in Outlook.