Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1917 — Loving a Grouch Away [ARTICLE]

Loving a Grouch Away

There’s a look on the face you can love away, a crease in the brow you can smooth today; There’s a gleam in the eye you cun change to one That is sweet as the ray of the morning sun— It’s the toufch of our loving, the sweet of our will, A'jgHT That scatter the shadows of anger T andiii. There’s a grouch that you think will be always the same, So. grim and so dark; but it goes as it came When you love it away with a tenderness born Of the spirit of brightness and gladness and morn — There isn’t a grouch ever lived very long 'Neath the spell of a love that is sweetened -with song.

You can love it away, love the ache —and the carer .T •- Love the heurt That Isi “heavy With grief and despair, Till it lifts to the sunshine, as flowers in the spring, And responds every time to the song that you sing— Forgetting its wrinkles and creases and frown — - At the touch of love’s fingers like velvet of down. —Baltimore Sun. Of wild bees 4,500 species are known, and of wasps 1,000 species.