L XXIX. LEND A HAND. END a hand to one another Let us help him in the strife. May become our own to-morrow. Lend a hand to one another. When malicious tongues have thrown Dark suspicion on your brother, Be not prompt to cast a stone. There is none so good but may Run adrift on shame and sorrow; And the good man of to-day May become the bad to-morrow. Lend a hand to one another. In the race for Honor's crown, Should it fall upon your brother, Let not envy tear it down. Lend a hand to all, we pray, In their sunshine or their sorrow; And the prize they've won to-day May become our own to-morrow. A. J. Davis's Manual XXX. CATCH THE SUNSHINE. YATCH the sunshine, though it flickers CAT Through a dark and dismal cloud; Though it falls so faint and feeble On a heart with sorrow bowed. It has only come to tell you Catch the sunshine, though Life's tempest Don't give up, and say, "Forsaken;" Catch the sunshine! Don't be grieving We must meet them everywhere. There's a sparkling gleam of sunshine Catch the sunshine, catch it gladly, Sent through clouds, through storms and billows, Don't be sighing, don't be weeping; “The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and perished in their pride." OVER the seas our galleys went. Cleaving prows, in order brave, With speeding wind and a bounding wave, A gallant armament. Each bark was built of a forest-tree But each one bore a stately tent. We, the voyagers from afar, Lay stretched, each weary crew At morn we started beside the mast, |