Be of good cheer, and have no fear <br />Of Fortune or Tomorrow: <br />To Hope's low whisper lend an ear <br />And turn away from Sorrow. <br /> <br />Time out of mind the soul is blind <br />To things God sends as blessings: <br />And Fortune often proves unkind <br />Merely in foolish guessings. <br /> <br />Within the soul we bear the whole <br />Of Hell and also Heaven; <br />And 'twixt the two is set the goal <br />Of dreams our lives have driven. <br /> <br />What counts above all deeds is Love, <br />And Friendship, that, remember, <br />In heart-beats keeps Life's record of <br />Its April and December. <br /> <br />To every one come rain and sun, <br />And calm and stormy weather: <br />What helps is not what Life has done, <br />But Life and Love together. <br /> <br />Of sun and rain and joy and pain <br />The web of Life is woven; <br />And ever through it runs the skein <br />Of Hope, with strand uncloven. <br /> <br />Now high in air it glitters fair; <br />Now dims beyond divining; <br />But still the thread winds golden there, <br />Although no longer shining. <br /> <br />Be of good cheer and have no fear <br />Of any care or sorrow; <br />The clouds at last will disappear, <br />And the sun will shine tomorrow.<br /><br />Madison Julius Cawein<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-song-of-cheer-3/
