It
is easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows by like a song, But the man
worthwhile is one who will smile, when everything goes dead wrong; For the
test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with the years, And the
smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.It
is easy enough to be prudent, When nothing tempts you to stray, When, without
or within, no voice of sin Is luring your soul away; But it's only a negative
virtue Until it is tried by fire, And the life that is worth the honor of
earth Is the one that resists desire.
By
the cynic, the sad, the fallen — who had no strength for the strife, The
world's highway is cumbered today; they make up the sum of life; https://www.inspirationline.com/images/RainUmbrellaRScheible.gifBut the virtue
that conquers passion, and the sorrow that hides in a smile, It is these that
are worth the homage on earth, for we find them but once in a while.

Ella
Wheeler Wilcox (1850 – 1919)
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