Blessed Are They
Blessed are they who are pleasant to live with -
Blessed are they who sing in the morning;
Whose faces have smiles for their early adorning;
Who come down to breakfast companioned by cheer;
Who don’t dwell on troubles or entertain fear;
Whose eyes smile forth bravely; whose lips curve to say:
“Life, I salute you! Good morning, new day!”
Blessed are they who are pleasant to live with -
Blessed are they who treat one another;
Though merely a sister, a father or brother,
With the very same courtesy they would extend
To a casual acquaintance or dearly loved friend;
Who choose for the telling encouraging things;
Who choke back the bitter, the sharp word that stings;
Who bestow love on others throughout the long day -
Pleasant to live with and blessed are they.
By Wilhelmina Stitch: “Silken Threads” (1930); type of work: poems by a single author collected in book form
Wilhelmina Stitch and Sheila Rand are pseudonyms of Ruth Collie, who was born as Ruth Jacobs in November 1888 in Cambridge, England. She became a writer, a poet, a book reviewer, and a newspaper editor. Many of her books have titles with a weaving metaphor, including “Joy’s Loom” (1929), “Homespun” (1930), “Silken Threads” (1930), “Tapestries” (1931), “Catching the Gleam” (1932), and “Mingled Yarn” (1936). Ruth Collie passed on at 47 years of age on 6 March 1936 in London, England.
Blessed are they who are pleasant to live with -
Blessed are they who sing in the morning;
Whose faces have smiles for their early adorning;
Who come down to breakfast companioned by cheer;
Who don’t dwell on troubles or entertain fear;
Whose eyes smile forth bravely; whose lips curve to say:
“Life, I salute you! Good morning, new day!”
Blessed are they who are pleasant to live with -
Blessed are they who treat one another;
Though merely a sister, a father or brother,
With the very same courtesy they would extend
To a casual acquaintance or dearly loved friend;
Who choose for the telling encouraging things;
Who choke back the bitter, the sharp word that stings;
Who bestow love on others throughout the long day -
Pleasant to live with and blessed are they.
By Wilhelmina Stitch: “Silken Threads” (1930); type of work: poems by a single author collected in book form
Wilhelmina Stitch and Sheila Rand are pseudonyms of Ruth Collie, who was born as Ruth Jacobs in November 1888 in Cambridge, England. She became a writer, a poet, a book reviewer, and a newspaper editor. Many of her books have titles with a weaving metaphor, including “Joy’s Loom” (1929), “Homespun” (1930), “Silken Threads” (1930), “Tapestries” (1931), “Catching the Gleam” (1932), and “Mingled Yarn” (1936). Ruth Collie passed on at 47 years of age on 6 March 1936 in London, England.
