p. 4 | The Word by John Kendrick Bangs

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 9, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 35, No. 19.

The Word.

By John Kendrick Bangs

TO-DAY whatever may annoy, The word for me is joy, just simply joy: The joy of life; The joy of children and of wife; The joy of bright, blue skies; The joy of rain; the glad surprise Of twinkling stars that shine at night; The joy of winged things upon their flight; The joy of noon-day, and the tried, True joyousness of eventide; The joy of labor, and of mirth; The joy of air and sea and earth— The countless joys that ever flow from Him Whose vast beneficence doth dim The lustrous light of day, And lavish gifts upon our way. Whate'er there be of sorrow, I'll put off till to-morrow, And when to-morrow comes; why, then, 'Twill be to-day and joy again! —John Kendrick Bangs.