HAND in HAND 
 
 and other Poems 
 
 By X^ Whitehall 
 
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HAND IN HAND 
 
 COPYRIGHTED 1920 By S. WHITEHALL, 
 South Bend, Indiana 
 
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Hand in Hand 
 
 From March thru May, 
 IV e tripped the way; 
 In sun and passing shoivers, 
 Young hope was there, 
 To lighten care, 
 Contentment sped the hours, 
 
 With bashful grace 
 Love caught the pace 
 Passing friendship as in play 
 When hearts entwined 
 As lives resigned 
 Destiny has led the way. 
 
We launched our boat, 
 
 To row or float, 
 
 Life's current bravely breasting; 
 
 And greet the gleam, 
 
 On wave and stream. 
 
 Well pleased with oar or resting. 
 
 On shore we land 
 
 At either hand. 
 
 Are daisies and the clover; 
 
 With fragrant things. 
 
 That summer brings. 
 
 The meadows painting over. 
 
On landscapes rare. 
 
 The haiy air, 
 
 By nature^ s mystic veiling; 
 
 Subdues the light, 
 
 From skies o^er bright, 
 
 Where fleecy clouds are sailing, 
 
 The way thru life, 
 
 V/ith pleasures rife, 
 
 Leads westivard to the glowing; 
 
 Thru wvod and glade, 
 
 In light and shade, 
 
 Life's autnmn hues are showing, 
 
We gather sheaves, 
 
 Of tinted leaves, 
 
 As ojt we have the flowers; 
 
 Hope, faith and love, 
 
 All join to prove, 
 
 Much yet left in life is ours. 
 
 For us hopes mould, 
 Fruits red and gold, 
 To ripen in September ; 
 And faith shuts out, 
 All fear or doubt. 
 Of harvest 'ere December. 
 
Fraternity 
 
 JVho helps the most when least he can 
 
 A measure is for real man 
 Who has a place in life to fill 
 
 Vacated when his heart is still 
 
 The one that seeks the truth to know,^ 
 In time well spent will wiser grow; 
 
 And find there is a living worth 
 In all created things of earth. 
 
Knowledge is the cure for all 
 The evils that to man may fally 
 
 His efforts crowning with success 
 Mid lauding hosts of manliness. 
 
 Live not by vague illogic creeds, 
 
 Nature^ s kind hand holds all our needs; 
 And in her justice we will find, 
 A future hope for all mankind. 
 
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// mankind fully understood 
 Our real blood bound brotherhood, 
 
 One god of universal span 
 
 Would touch the heart of every man. 
 
 And joy with pence and confidence, 
 
 Walk hand in hand with common sense; 
 
 Completely free from selfishness, 
 
 We^d love man more and fear God less. 
 
Life 
 
 The sweetest thing in life we know, 
 Is life itself with healthful glow; 
 
 And love for all created things, 
 
 That nestles neath timers brooding wings. 
 
 To bravely dare and constant do 
 
 Leads to useful life and true 
 Fulfdling natures great behest, 
 
 In noble character expressed, 
 
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Lifers mostly what we think of it, 
 Our joys we deeply drink of it, 
 
 While wisdom hoards with frugal care, 
 The good that flows from everywhere. 
 
 The viciousness that harbors hate, 
 Is small of siie and light of weight; 
 
 And winds thru life the ways of gloom,, 
 Where sing no birds nor flowers bloom. 
 
The selfishness that grasps for all 
 On reaching right is sure to fall 
 
 Forgotten ere this life is gone: 
 No grief its mantle falls upon, 
 
 Deep grounded in its heedless sin 
 Ingratitude to crime is kin 
 
 And envy with its lasting sting. 
 No peace or joy or love can bring. 
 
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Some good there is in every one; 
 
 Appealing vice neglecting none, 
 Leaves a choosing chance to all; 
 
 For prideful rise or shameful fall 
 
 Then live to love, and love to live. 
 
 To thereby greater measure give 
 Of true happiness to others; 
 
 Knowing all as Sisters, Brothers. 
 
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Forgetting bad in others known, 
 Perhaps by trial better grown] 
 
 For thorns along the paths of strife, 
 May point the way to useful life. 
 
 Age may attain to grandest things 
 In humble tasks well done, and brings 
 
 Alike to all, both small and great. 
 Worthy lives to emulate. 
 
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Time 
 
 Time that our joy and sorrow brings, 
 With ripened hopes and shattered things. 
 
 Can never smooth the furrowed face, 
 Nor lend stiff joints a supple grace. 
 
 Take each one by the hand at birth, 
 Passing childhood's thoughtless mirth. 
 
 Through youth's bright dreamland far away; 
 To greet ambition's dawning day. 
 
 Where grander things than youth had known, 
 Across the skies as clouds are blown, 
 
 And joyous life's warm golden June, 
 With all creation seems atune. 
 
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IVhile sweetly bloom the flowers of love, 
 Reflecting tinted skies above; 
 
 And perfect life is found at last, 
 
 As nature^ s broadening flelds are past. 
 
 Here sturdy manhood takes the sway, 
 Requited loves directs the way; 
 
 Where knowledge, work and honor gain 
 The fruits of toil and conquered pain. 
 
 So on we plod, and moving on, 
 
 Look back with pride on things agone; 
 And doing still the best we can, 
 
 Are far beyond where we began. 
 
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Some coming on as others go 
 
 The tide of life will ever flow, 
 The waves that pass are much the same 
 
 As those that long before them came. 
 
 The morn's return besprent with dew, 
 
 The brooklefs ceaseless whisperings true^ 
 
 Time's echoed voice along its way, 
 Bespeak eternal life and day. 
 
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