THE TWO SIDES OF IT by Priscilla Leonard

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Sep 11, 1900

THE TWO SIDES OF IT.

By Priscilla Leonard

There was a girl who always said Her fate was very hard; From the one thing she wanted most She always was debarred. There always was a cloudy spot Somewhere within her sky; Nothing was e’er exactly right, She used to say, and sigh.

And yet her sister, strange to say, Whose lot was quite the same, Found something pleasant for herself In every day that came. Of course, things tangled up sometimes For just a little while; But nothing ever stayed all wrong, She used to say, and smile.

So one girl sighed, and one girl smiled, Through all their lives together; It didn’t come from luck or fate, From clear or cloudy weather. The reason lay within their hearts, And colored all outside; One chose to hope, and one to mope, And so they smiled and sighed.

— Priscilla Leonard.