FORGIVE AND FORGET by Robert Gray

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 3, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 49.

FORGIVE AND FORGET.

By Robert Gray

FORGIVE and forget, it is better To fling all ill feeling aside Than allow the deep, cankering fetter Of revenge in your breast to abide; For your step o’er life’s path will be lighter, When the load from your bosom is cast, And the glorious sky will seem brighter, When the cloud of displeasure has passed.

Tho your spirit swell high with emotion To give back injustice again, Sink the thought in oblivion’s ocean, For remembrance increases the pain. O, why should we linger in sorrow, When its shadow is passing away,— Or seek to encounter to-morrow, The blast that o’erswept us to-day?

Our life’s stream is a varying river, And tho it may placidly glide, When the sunbeams of joy o’er it quiver, It must foam when the storm meets its tide. Then stir not its current to madness, For its wrath thou wilt ever regret; Tho the morning beams break on thy sadness, Ere the sunset, forgive and forget.

—Robert Gray.