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Hearts, that have cheered us ever, night and day,
With words that helped us on the rugged way,
The hard, long road of life—to whom is due
More than the heart can ever hope to pay—
Are they not touchstones, soul-transmuting true
All thoughts to gold, refining thus the clay?

III
FORTUNE

Fortune may pass us by:
Follow her flying feet.
Love, all we ask, deny:
Never admit defeat.
Take heart again and try.
Never say die.

IV
BE GLAD

Be glad, just for to-day!
O heart, be glad!
Cast all your cares away!
Doff all that 's sad!
Put off your garments gray!
Be glad to-day!

Be merry while you can;
For life is short—
It seemeth but a span
Before we part.
Let each maid take her man,
And dance while dance she can:
Life 's but a little span—
Be merry while you can.

V
CARPE DIEM

Blow high, blow low!
No longer borrow
Care of tomorrow:
Take joy of life, and let care go!

VI
JOY SPEAKS

One with the Heaven above
Am I—its bliss:
Part of its truth and love,
And what God is.

I heal the soul and mind:
I work their cures:
Not Grief, that rends Mankind,
But Joy endures.

VII
FOR THE OLD

These are the things I pray Heaven send us still,—
To blow the ashes of the years away,
Or keep aglow forever 'neath their gray
The fire that warms when Life's old house grows chill:
First Faith, that gazed into our youth's bright eyes;
Courage, that helped us onward, rain or sun;
Then Hope, who captained all our deeds well done;
And, last, the dream of Love that never dies.