NEVER mind a change of scene <br />Try a change of thinking. <br />What if things seem sordid, mean, <br />What's the use of blinking? <br /> <br />Life's not always storm and cloud, <br />Somewhere stars are shining. <br />Try to think your joys out loud, <br />Silence all repining. <br /> <br />By degrees, by thinking light, <br />Thinking glad and sweetly, <br />You'll escape the stress of night, <br />Worry gone completely. <br /> <br />Get the habit looking for <br />Sunbeams pirouetting, <br />Tapping gaily at your door <br />Surest cure for fretting. <br /> <br />Needn't fool yourself at all, <br />For there's no denying <br />E'en above a prison wall <br />Song-birds are aflying. <br /> <br />Wherefore hearken to the song, <br />Never mind the prison, <br />And you'll find your soul ere long <br />Unto freedom risen.<br /><br />John Kendrick Bangs<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-thinking-glad/
