Just to be good-- <br />This is enough--enough! <br />O we who find sin's billows wild and rough, <br />Do we not feel how more than any gold <br />Would be the blameless life we led of old <br />While yet our lips knew but a mother's kiss? <br />Ah! though we miss <br />All else but this, <br />To be good is enough! <br /> <br />It is enough-- <br />Enough--just to be good! <br />To lift our hearts where they are understood; <br />To let the thirst for worldly power and place <br />Go unappeased; to smile back in God's face <br />With the glad lips our mothers used to kiss. <br />Ah! though we miss <br />All else but this, <br />To be good is enough!<br /><br />James Whitcomb Riley<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/just-to-be-good/
