Seeking for happiness we must go slowly; <br />The road leads not down avenues of haste; <br />But often gently winds through by ways lowly, <br />Whose hidden pleasures are serene and chaste. <br />Seeking for happiness we must take heed <br />Of simple joys that are not found in speed. <br /> <br /> <br />Eager for noon-time's large effulgent splendour, <br />Too oft we miss the beauty of the dawn, <br />Which tiptoes by us, evanescent, tender, <br />Its pure delights unrecognised till gone. <br />Seeking for happiness we needs must care <br />For all the little things that make life fair. <br /> <br /> <br />Dreaming of future pleasures and achievements <br />We must not let to-day starve at our door; <br />Nor wait till after losses and bereavements <br />Before we count the riches in our store. <br />Seeking for happiness we must prize this- <br />Not what will be, or was, but that which is. <br /> <br /> <br />In simple pathways hand in hand with duty <br />(With faith and love, too, ever at her side), <br />May happiness be met in all her beauty <br />The while we search for her both far and wide. <br />Seeking for happiness we find the way <br />Doing the things we ought to do each day.<br /><br />Ella Wheeler Wilcox<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/seeking-for-happiness/
