Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1919 — SOLITUDE. [ARTICLE]

SOLITUDE.

Laugh, and the world laughs with y° u ; , . Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow . its mirth. It has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound, j But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go; They want full measure of all your pleasure, ... But they do not need your woe. Be glad, ar.d your friends are many; ’ Be sad and you lose them all; There are none to decline your nectaf’d wine, ’ But alone you must drink nips gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by, Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a large and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox.