BEGIN the day with smiling eyes ; <br />Pursue the day with smiling lips; <br />Through clouds perceive the smiling skies <br />Up where the smiling sunbeam trips. <br /> <br />Let smiling thoughts within your mind <br />Drive gloom and cold despair apart, <br />And promptings of a genial kind <br />Keep ever growing in your heart. <br /> <br />Meet trouble with a cheery mien, <br />Be jovial in the face of care <br />He routs all mischief from the scene <br />Who greets it with a jocund air.<br /><br />John Kendrick Bangs<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-receipt-for-happiness/
