COMMONPLACE.

A“A COMMONPLACE life,” we say, and we sigh;But why should we sigh as we say?The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky,Makes up the commonplace day;The moon and the stars are commonplace things,And the flower that blooms, and the bird that sings:But dark were the world and sad our lotIf the flowers failed and the sun shone not;And God, who studies each separate soul,Out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

A“A COMMONPLACE life,” we say, and we sigh;But why should we sigh as we say?The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky,Makes up the commonplace day;The moon and the stars are commonplace things,And the flower that blooms, and the bird that sings:But dark were the world and sad our lotIf the flowers failed and the sun shone not;And God, who studies each separate soul,Out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

A“A COMMONPLACE life,” we say, and we sigh;But why should we sigh as we say?The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky,Makes up the commonplace day;The moon and the stars are commonplace things,And the flower that blooms, and the bird that sings:But dark were the world and sad our lotIf the flowers failed and the sun shone not;And God, who studies each separate soul,Out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

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“A COMMONPLACE life,” we say, and we sigh;

But why should we sigh as we say?

The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky,

Makes up the commonplace day;

The moon and the stars are commonplace things,

And the flower that blooms, and the bird that sings:

But dark were the world and sad our lot

If the flowers failed and the sun shone not;

And God, who studies each separate soul,

Out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.


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