It Pays

It Pays
 
It pays to wear a smiling face
     And laugh our troubles down,
For all our little troubles wait
     Our laughter or our frown.
Beneath the magic of a smile
     Our doubts will fade away,
As melts the frost in early spring
     Beneath the sunny ray.
 
It pays to make a worthy cause,
     By helping it, our own;
To give the current of our lives
     A true and noble tone.
It pays to comfort heavy hearts,
     Oppressed with dull despair,
And leave in sorrow-darkened lives
     One gleam of brightness there.
 
It pays to give a helping hand
     To eager, earnest youth;
To note, with all their waywardness,
     Their courage and their truth;
To strive, with sympathy and love,
     Their confidence to win.
It pays to open wide the heart
     And let the sunshine in.
 
By Author Unknown