<h2><SPAN name="page18"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>SEEKING FOR HAPPINESS</h2>
<p class="poetry"><span class="smcap">Seeking</span> for
happiness we must go slowly;<br/>
The road leads not down avenues of haste;<br/>
But often gently winds through by ways lowly,<br/>
Whose hidden pleasures are serene and chaste<br/>
Seeking for happiness we must take heed<br/>
Of simple joys that are not found in speed.</p>
<p class="poetry">Eager for noon-time’s large effulgent
splendour,<br/>
Too oft we miss the beauty of the dawn,<br/>
Which tiptoes by us, evanescent, tender,<br/>
Its pure delights unrecognised till gone.<br/>
Seeking for happiness we needs must care<br/>
For all the little things that make life fair.</p>
<p class="poetry">Dreaming of future pleasures and
achievements<br/>
We must not let to-day starve at our door;<br/>
Nor wait till after losses and bereavements<br/>
Before we count the riches in our store.<br/>
<SPAN name="page19"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>Seeking
for happiness we must prize this—<br/>
Not what will be, or was, but that which <i>is</i>.</p>
<p class="poetry">In simple pathways hand in hand with duty<br/>
(With faith and love, too, ever at her side),<br/>
May happiness be met in all her beauty<br/>
The while we search for her both far and wide.<br/>
Seeking for happiness we find the way<br/>
Doing the things we ought to do each day.</p>
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