That truth may grow and honor live

To yield their fruit benign.

Who gives no sunshine from his soul

Must live in darkness ever,

For Nature scorns to such degree,

She blinds a sordid giver.

But he who scatters noble deeds,

And lives to bless mankind,

Shall see the beauties God reveals

To men with hearts refined.

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INCOMPETENCE.

Sometimes our soul within us burns

To see dark Ignorance aspire

To move toward light a mind that yearns

For knowledge that may lift it higher

Upon the royal road of truth,

While every word and act and thought

Betrays an atmosphere so fraught

With lack of common sense and lore,

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