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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Feb 1, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 5.

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HAPPINESS.

By Robert Pollok

TRUE happiness had no localities, No tones provincial, no peculiar garb. Where duty went she went, with justice went, And went with meekness, charity, and love. Where'er a tear was dried, a wounded heart Bound up, a bruised spirit with the dew Of sympathy anointed, or a pang Of honest suffering soothed, or injury Repeated oft, as oft by love forgiven; Where'er an evil passion was subdued, Or virtue's feeble embers fanned; where'er A sin was heartily abjured, and left; Where'er a pious act was done, or breathed A pious prayer, or wished a pious wish; There was a high and holy place, a spot Of sacred light, a most religious fane, Where happiness, descending, sat and smiled. —Pollok.