Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1917 — We Need So Little. [ARTICLE]

We Need So Little.

We need go much in the flush of youth When the heart is pulsing with life’s rich tide; We long for beauty and love and truth With a hunger and thirst unsatisfied. We toil for fame and we grasp at power. Our souls are attuned to the world's mad strife. All heaven and earth seem our rightful dower— For we need so much In the rush of life. We need so little when life is done And the spirit soars from its chrysalis; From our careless fingers,. one by one. Drop the useless treasures we shall not miss. The glitter of gold, the hoarded heap Of prizes and praises so hardly won, We will barter them all for a dreamless sleep— For we need so little when life Is done! —lda Goldsmith Morris.