Boys That Are Wanted by Carlotta Perry

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 17, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 49.

Boys That Are Wanted

By Carlotta Perry

"Wanted — boys." This want I find As the city's wants I read of. And that is so — there's a certain kind Of boys that the world has need of. The boys that are wanted are steady boys, Unselfish, true, and tender, Holding more dear the sweet home joys Than the club or the ballroom's splendor;

Boys who have eyes for the sister's grace Swift hands for the household duty; Who see in the mother's patient face The highest, holiest beauty; Boys of earnest and noble aim, The friends of the poor and lowly, To whom forever a woman's name Is something sacred and holy.

Boys are wanted whose breaths are sweet, The pure air undefiling; Who scorn all falsehood and smooth deceit That lead to a soul beguiling; Boys who in scenes that are glad and bright Feel their pulses beat the faster, But who hold each animal appetite As servant and not as master.

Boys are wanted who strength can lead, The weaker upon them leaning; Boys whose "No" is a "No" indeed, And whose "Yes" has an equal meaning; Who are strong, not only when life decrees Its bitter and heavy trials, But can practise its small economies, And its every-day self-denials. — Carlotta Perry.