The New Hampshire Gazette

DOCKRY. THE WORLD AS IT IS.

This world is not so bad a world
As some would like to make it ;
Though whether good, or whether bad,
Depends on how we take it.

For, if we scold and fret all day,
From dewy morn till even ;
This world will ne'er afford to man
A foretaste here of heaven.

This world in truth's as good a world,
As e'er was known to any
Who have not seen another yet,
(And these are very many,)

And if the men and women too,
Have plenty of employment,
Those surely must be hard to please,
Who cannot find enjoyment.

This world is quite a pleasant world,
In rain or pleasant weather,
If people would but learn to live
In harmony together;

Nor seek to burst the kindly bond
By love and peace cemented,
And learn that best of lessons yet,
Always to be contented.

Then were the world a pleasant world,
And pleasant folks were in it,
The day would pass most pleasantly
To those who thus begin it :

And all the nameless grievances
Brought on by Borrowed troubles,
Would prove, as certainly they are,
A mass of empty bubbles.