A family cache of tiny leather-bound books, dating from the early twentieth century and carrying snippets of poetry and prose quotations, offered up these little thoughts to ponder.
FRIENDSHIP
Friendship – a dear balm –
Whose coming is as light and music are
’Mid dissonance and gloom : - a star
Which moves not ’mid the moving heaven alone;
A smile among dark frowns; a beloved light;
A solitude, a refuge, a delight.
Shelley
SUNSHINE
When a bit of sunshine hits ye
After passing of a cloud,
When a fit of laughter gits ye
An’ ye’r spine is feelin’ proud,
Don’t forgit to up and fling it
At a soul that’s feelin’ blue,
For the minit that ye sling it
It’s a boomerang to you.
J Crawford
IT IS THE TRIFLES WHICH MATTER MOST
God sends great angels in our sore dismay;
But little ones go in and out all day.
~
Two men look out from the same bars,
One sees the mud and one the stars.
Canon Langbridge
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