p. 126 | The Home Circle

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 17, 1879

The Home Circle.

SCATTER GLADNESS.

THE Seasons in passing, one sweet moral bring, And well, if he marked it, would man do; "Spread pleasure like me," is the language of Spring, "Make all hearts as glad as you can do! What a world it would be, if—less mindful of pelf— You esteemed every neighbor a brother; And if each, while he did a bit good for himself, Did a little bit, too, for another!"

The Summer but varies the lesson—"Make glad! Treat all men with love and affection! My sun shines alike on the good and the bad, And shall you dare think of selection? What a world it would be, if—less mindful of pelf— You esteemed e'en a bad man a brother; And if each, while he did a bit good for himself, Did a little bit, too, for another."

The Autumn repeats it—"My stores are for all, But should one, in the scramble get favor, Let him share it with those to whom little may fall, And what's left will have all the more savor! What a world it would be, if—less mindful of pelf— You esteemed the unlucky a brother, And if each, while he did a bit good for himself, Did a little bit, too, for another.

And Winter affirms it while shaking the door, And binding the stream with his fetter— "Keep the cold that I bring, from the hearts of the poor, And your own will burn brighter and better! What a world it would be, if—less mindful of pelf— You esteemed every poor man a brother; And if each, while he did a bit good for himself, Did a little bit, too, for another!"