Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1890 — If This Old World Turned Round. [ARTICLE]

If This Old World Turned Round.

If this old world of ours turned around the other way. Would there be more of Joy in store than ws may find to-day: Would all the cares that fall across the weary hearts of men And all the sin and all the grief be quite for* gotten then; And would the glad and gracious dreams we sometimes dream come true. And skies so darkly clouded now be one eternal blue; Would all our cherished ships come ill that tides and winds delay If this old world of ours turned around tho Other way? if this old world of ours turned around the other way, Would faith and doubt play In and out our changeful hearts for aye; Would vibe and virtue, joy and grief, sunshine and shadow blend. Could we not clearly choose between a foeman and a friend: Would roses sweetly blossom without the crufel thorn And lilies in the heat of noon retain the dew of morn; Would there be softer music In the babbling brooklet’s play If this old world of ours turned around the other way? If this old world of ours turned around the other way. Still you and 1 would sadly sigh and all our pleasures slay; We'd miss the tender beauty of the azure summer skies Because of self-made clouds we’d place before our blinded eyes; We would not prize the roses fair nor hear the brooklet’s soDg. Each gracious gift that crowns the right we’d - - forfeit with a wrong. We’d have the grief and joy and doubt and hope we have to-day If this old world of ours turned round the other way.

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