TRIFLES

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 21, 1898

What will it matter in a little while That for a day We met and gave a word, a touch, a smile, Upon the way.

What will it matter whether hearts were brave, And lives were true, That you gave me the sympathy I crave As I gave you?

These trifles! Can it be they make or mar A human life? Are souls as lightly swayed as rushes are By love or strife?

Yea, yea! A look the fainting heart may break, Or make it whole; And just one word, if said for love’s sweet sake, May save a soul!

—Anon.