Do you wish the world were better? <br /> Let me tell you what to do: <br />Set a watch for your actions, <br /> Keep them always straight and true; <br />Rid tour mind of selfish motives; <br /> Let your thoughts be clean and high. <br />You can make a little Eden <br /> Of the sphere you occupy. <br /> <br />Do you wish the world were wiser? <br /> Well, suppose you made a start, <br />By accumulating wisdom <br /> In the scrapbook of your heart: <br />Do not waste one page on folly; <br /> Live to learn, and learn to live. <br />If you want to give men knowledge <br /> You must get it, ere you give. <br /> <br />Do you wish the world were happy? <br /> Then remember day by day <br />Just to scatter seeds of kindness <br /> As you pass along the way; <br />For the pleasures of the many <br /> May ofttimes traced to one, <br />As the hand that plants an acorn <br /> Shelters armies from the sun.<br /><br />Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wishing/
