Smiles
Smiles! What are they for? I will tell you -
All hatred they melt into love;
They chase away sorrow and trouble,
With a gleam from the heaven above.
They make us all cheerful and happy,
Ah! whether we will or no;
Can a sunbeam be ever resisted
When it falls on a bank of snow?
We should wearily grope through the shadows
That compass this earthly life
Were it not for these flashes of brightness
That fall on us through the strife,
To reveal the fond spirits around us,
The blossoms that spring in our way;
For the world is not all so dreary
As some people choose to say.
The innocent laughter of childhood
Makes the heart of the aged to thrill;
At the sweet, merry song of the maiden
The mourner looks up and is still.
O the bright, sunny smiles of contentment
That flecker* with light our dull way!
They will change every hardship to pleasure
And the darkest night turn into day.
By Author Unknown
*flecker: a spot or streak, as in sunlight-fleckerings showing on the ground in a woods
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Smiles! What are they for? I will tell you -
All hatred they melt into love;
They chase away sorrow and trouble,
With a gleam from the heaven above.
They make us all cheerful and happy,
Ah! whether we will or no;
Can a sunbeam be ever resisted
When it falls on a bank of snow?
We should wearily grope through the shadows
That compass this earthly life
Were it not for these flashes of brightness
That fall on us through the strife,
To reveal the fond spirits around us,
The blossoms that spring in our way;
For the world is not all so dreary
As some people choose to say.
The innocent laughter of childhood
Makes the heart of the aged to thrill;
At the sweet, merry song of the maiden
The mourner looks up and is still.
O the bright, sunny smiles of contentment
That flecker* with light our dull way!
They will change every hardship to pleasure
And the darkest night turn into day.
By Author Unknown
*flecker: a spot or streak, as in sunlight-fleckerings showing on the ground in a woods
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the next article, or click or tap on these words to read Smiles And Smiling Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
