EVERY-DAY PHILOSOPHY by Frank L. Stanton

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 22, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 38.

EVERY-DAY PHILOSOPHY.

By Frank L. Stanton

I reckon it’s full o’ sufferin’—I reckon it’s full o’ sin, But still it’s the best world, bretherin, that ever I’ve been in. I’m rather fond of its sunshine, on the valley, the hill, an’ the plain, An’ I’d rather thank God for the rainbow than be lyin’ under the rain.

I reckon it’s full o’ trouble, an’ the graves, they are growin’ green So fast that thar ain’t a lily but over some face will lean; Some missin’ face from the sweet home place, bringin’ a thought o’ pain, Yet I still thank God fer the rainbow, an’ them lyin’ under the rain.

It’s a great old world. The winter’s air cold, but the blessed spring comes roun’, An’ the warm sun whispers secrets to the seed that sleeps in the groun’; An’ the violets wake in the valleys, an’ the fountains flow on the plain— So, I’d rather be friends with the rainbow than be lyin’ under the rain.

We’ll all have strength fer the sufferin’—no matter the toil and strife; We all go along with the same old song down the dusky ways of life; But still fer all the preachin’, an’ still fer all the pain, I’d rather be friends with the rainbow than be lyin’ under the rain.

—Frank L. Stanton.