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LIFE IS TOO SHORT

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 3, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 43.

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LIFE IS TOO SHORT.

By M. G. Shirley

BY M. G. SHIRLEY.
LIFE is too short for any vain endeavor, For useless sighing over vanished days; No time for scorn, no time for needless praise— Life is too short.
Life is too short for envy to be nourished, For sin to cumber up the path we tread; Think of the suffering, hear the cry for bread— Life is too short.
Life is too short for avarice to devour And rob men's souls to seek its evil end. No time for bitter thought, you know, my friends— Life is too short.
Life is too short to waste in tears and grieving Over the love that came but did not stay. 'Tis sweet to dream, but dreams, too, pass away— Life is too short.
Life is too short—forgive and be forgiven, While yet we linger; everything is brief; There is no time for idleness or grief— Life is too short.
—Yankee Blade.