II

HOW OLD ARE YOU

How old are You?

Age is a quality of mind ——

If you have left your dreams behind, If hope is lost —

If you no longer look ahead,

If your ambition’s fires are dead —— Then you are old.

But if from life you take the best, And if in life you keep the jest — If love you hold —

No matter how the years go by, No matter how the birthdays fly, You are not old.

WWW

It’s not the things that can be bought that are life’s richest treasures,

It’s just the little “heart gifts”

that money cannot measure . . .

A cheerful smile, a friendly word,

a sympathetic nod

Are priceless little treasures

from the storehouse of our God . . . They are the things that can’t be bought with silver or with gold,

For thoughtfulness and kindness and love are never sold...

They are the priceless things in life for which no one can pay,

And the giver finds rich recompense in GIVING THEM AWAY.

POEM

Long ago I had a friend . . . a friend in need to

me, And often I was going to show . . . how grateful I could be, But then you know how it is . . . I hope you will not chide

Before the chance occurred to me . . . my dearest

friend had died.

I learned this lesson long ago. . . and made this

solemn vow,

This. if some kind deed I would do . . . I’d always

do it now.

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