Golden Keys
A bunch of golden keys is mine
To make each day with gladness shine.
"God morning" is the golden key
That unlocks every day for me.
When at the table, "If you please"
I take off from my bunch of keys.
When friends give anything to me,
I use my little "Thank you" key.
"Excuse me"--"Beg your pardon" too
If by some mistake some harm I do.
When evening comes, "Goodnight" I say
And close the door of each glad day.
With a golden ring these keys I bind
This motto -- "Be ye kind."
I'll often use each golden key
And then a child polite I'll be.
Author unknown
American Citizens Handbook, 1968
p476
Kindness garden
Kind hearts are the garden,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the blossoms,
Kind deeds are the fruits.
Love is sweet sunshine
That warms into life,
For only in darkness
Grow darkness and strife
Author unknown
AC Handbook p 482
Other short poems - page 486
If wisdom's ways you'd wisely seek
Five things observe with care:
Of whom you speak,
To whom you speak,
And how and when and where.
Author unknown
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Little loving thoughts
Are tiny little seeds
From which bud and blossom
Little loving deeds.
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The Never-Old
They who can smile when others hate
Nor bind the heart with fruits of fate,
Their feet will go with laughter bold
The green roads of the Never-Old,
They who can let the spirit shine
And keep the heart a lighted shrine,
Their feet will glide with fire-of-gold
The bright roads of the Never-Old.
They who can put the self aside
And in Love's saddle leap and ride,
Their eyes will see the gates unfold
To glad roads of the Never-Old.
Edwin Markham
AC Handbook p495
Beautiful. That's a third one I can use. Thanks so much.