Taste Life's Glad Moments/Taste Life's Glad Moments

TASTE LIFE’S GLAD MOMENTS.

TASTE life’s glad moments,
Whilst the wasting taper glows,
Pluck, e’er it withers,
The quickly fading rose:
Man blindly follows grief and care,
He seeks for thorns, and finds his shares
Whilst violets, to the passing air.
Unheeded shed their blossoms.

When tim’rous nature veils her form;
And rolling thunder spreads alarm,
Then ah! how sweet, when lull'd the storm,
The sun smiles forth at even,

How spleen and envy anxious flies.
And meek content, in humble guise
Improves the shrub, a tree shall rise;
Which golden fruits shall yield him.

Who fosters faith in upright breast,
And freely gives to the distress’d,
There sweet contentment builds her nest,
And flutters round his bosom

And when life’s path grows dark and strait,
And pressing ills, on ills await,
Then friendship, sorrow to abate,
The helping hand will offer.

She dries his tears, she strews his way,
E’en in the grave with flowrets gay;
Turns night to morn, morn to day,
And pleasure still increases.

Of life she is the fairest band,
loins brothers truly hand in hand;
Thus onward to a better land,
Man journeys light and cheerly.