The Book of Good Cheer

1911

The laughter of the little brook

That runs its merry way,

From the mountain-sides of Yesterday

To the meadows of To-day;

 

In the song of every happy bird,

In the bloom of every flower,

In the blue, blue sky above us,

And the sun behind the shower;

 

In the laughter of the children,

In the faces that they bear, ---

Behold the joyous tidings,

And the glory everywhere!

 

There's a smile wher'er we journey,

There's a laugh we all may hear,

If we'll only hark and listen

To the Gospel of Good Cheer. 

 

--- Edwin Osgood Grover

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me.  All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door.  I am in the house and I have the key.

--- Charles F. Lummis