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The Home Circle

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 6, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 46.

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The Home Circle.

"I'LL DO WHAT I CAN."

"I'll do what I can," said a bright-eyed girl, And she gathered a fresh bouquet Of the sweetest buds and flowers, and placed In the room where her sick mother lay; And at night when the angel of sleep came around, He tucked under May's head a pillow of down.
"I'll do what I can," said a thoughtful boy, And brought out the rake and hoe; Cleaned out the potatoes, the beans and peas, And the onions, row by row. And the shower came on, and the warm bright sun, And finished the work which the boy had begun.
So they did what they could, each one in its way, And the world was the happier by it. And if any of you little children doubt What I say, I ask you to try it; And you'll find that through life 'tis an excellent plan, In every condition to do what you can.