Poem
Alittle laughter, and a few short daysAnd Life is done:The race throughout this long bewildering mazeIs quickly run.A little friendship, and a word or soWith worth half guessed—And then a-weary to long sleep we go,And that is best.Life is a little while to dream our dreamsBefore we rest—And Life to us is always what it seems:That is Life’s jest.A little hope, a friendship which might live,The laughing sun,A tear, a star, is all Life has to giveEre Life be done.R. C. BATES.
Alittle laughter, and a few short daysAnd Life is done:The race throughout this long bewildering mazeIs quickly run.A little friendship, and a word or soWith worth half guessed—And then a-weary to long sleep we go,And that is best.Life is a little while to dream our dreamsBefore we rest—And Life to us is always what it seems:That is Life’s jest.A little hope, a friendship which might live,The laughing sun,A tear, a star, is all Life has to giveEre Life be done.R. C. BATES.
Alittle laughter, and a few short daysAnd Life is done:The race throughout this long bewildering mazeIs quickly run.
Alittle laughter, and a few short days
And Life is done:
The race throughout this long bewildering maze
Is quickly run.
A little friendship, and a word or soWith worth half guessed—And then a-weary to long sleep we go,And that is best.
A little friendship, and a word or so
With worth half guessed—
And then a-weary to long sleep we go,
And that is best.
Life is a little while to dream our dreamsBefore we rest—And Life to us is always what it seems:That is Life’s jest.
Life is a little while to dream our dreams
Before we rest—
And Life to us is always what it seems:
That is Life’s jest.
A little hope, a friendship which might live,The laughing sun,A tear, a star, is all Life has to giveEre Life be done.
A little hope, a friendship which might live,
The laughing sun,
A tear, a star, is all Life has to give
Ere Life be done.
R. C. BATES.
R. C. BATES.