Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1918 — JUST BE GLAD [ARTICLE]

JUST BE GLAD

Oh heart of mine, we shouldn’t Worry so! What we’ve missed of calm we couldn’t Have, you know! What we’ve met of stormy pain, And of sorrow’s driving rain, We can better meet again, If It blow! We have erred in that dark hour We have known. When the tears fell with a shower All alone— Were not shine and showers blent As the gracious Master meant? Let us temper our content With His own. For we know, not every morrow Can be sad; So forgetting all the sorrow We have had; Let us fold away our fears. And put by our foolish tears. And through all the coming years, Just be glad. —James Whitcomb Riley.