If one proves weak who you fancied strong, Or false who you fancied true, Just ease the smart of your wounded heart By the thought that it is not you!

If many forget a promise made, And your faith falls into the dust, Then look meanwhile in your mirror and smile, And say, ‘I am one to trust!’

Poems of Experience/See?

If you search in vain for an ageing face

Unharrowed by fretful fears, Then make right now (and keep) a vow To grow in grace with the years.

Poems of Experience/See?

If you lose your faith in the word of man

As you go from the port of youth, Just say as you sail, ‘I will not fail To keep to the course of truth!’

Poems of Experience/See?

For this is the way, and the only way -

At least so it seems to me. It is up to you, to be, and do, What you look for in others. See?

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