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Edgar Albert Guest - As It Is

2014-10-29 8 Dailymotion

I might wish the world were better, <br />I might sit around and sigh <br />For a water that is wetter <br />And a bluer sort of sky. <br />There are times I think the weather <br />Could be much improved upon, <br />But when taken altogether <br />It's a good old world we're on. <br />I might tell how I would make it, <br />But when I have had my say <br />It is still my job to take It <br />As it is, from day to day. <br />I might wish that men were kinder, <br />And less eager after gold; <br />I might wish that they were blinder <br />To the faults they now behold. <br />And I'd try to make them gentle, <br />And more tolerant in strife <br />And a bit more sentimental <br />O'er the finer things of life. <br />But I am not here to make them, <br />Or to work in human clay; <br />It is just my work to take them <br />As they are from day to day. <br />Here's a world that suffers sorrow, <br />Here are bitterness and pain, <br />And the joy we plan to-morrow <br />May be ruined by the rain. <br />Here are hate and greed and badness, <br />Here are love and friendship, too, <br />But the most of it is gladness <br />When at last we've run it through. <br />Could we only understand it <br />As we shall some distant day <br />We should see that He who planned it <br />Knew our needs along the way.<br /><br />Edgar Albert Guest<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-it-is-13/

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