quite ignore our daily store Of pleasures sweet and tender.

And do not see the daisies;

For blessings common in our sight

We sigh for some supreme delight To crown our lives with splendor,

And quite ignore our daily store Of pleasures sweet and tender.

Our cares are bold and push their way Upon our thought and feeling. They hang about us all the day, Our time from pleasure stealing. So unobtrusive many a joy We pass by and forget it, But worry strives to own our lives And conquers if we let it.

Upon our thought and feeling.

Our time from pleasure stealing.

We pass by and forget it,

And conquers if we let it.

There's not a day in all the year But holds some hidden pleasure, And looking back, joys oft appear To brim the past's wide measure. But blessings are like friends, I hold, Who love and labor near us. We ought to raise our notes of praise While living hearts can hear us.

But holds some hidden pleasure,

To brim the past's wide measure.

Who love and labor near us.

While living hearts can hear us.

Full many a blessing wears the guise Of worry or of trouble. Farseeing is the soul and wise Who knows the mask is double. But he who has the faith and strength To thank his God for sorrow Has found a joy without alloy To gladden every morrow.

Of worry or of trouble.

Who knows the mask is double.

To thank his God for sorrow

To gladden every morrow.

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