Kind Words by Arthur V. Fox

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 19, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 50.

Kind Words

By Arthur V. Fox

A word unsaid seems a little thing, But alas! I may never know If the coming days to a soul may bring The truth that I fail to show.

A song unsung seems a little thing, But the heart that I left to-day May pine for the songs that I did not sing, As it goes on its cheerless way.

A deed undone seems a little thing, But the burden I might have shared Has left a heart with a bitter sting Of the thought that "nobody cared."

So the little things that we leave undone Are the things that men hold dear; Life's battles are reckoned lost or won By a smile or a falling tear.

'Tis the little things that the burdened heart In the time of trial heeds; Then let us lighten life's ache and smart With the sunshine of little deeds.