Don’t always be wishing for what you can’t get;

For wishes are vain that cannot be met.

Don’t always be moping because you feel blue;

’T will make you unhappy, and other folks, too.

Don’t always be fretting if something goes wrong

And not to your liking; it won’t be for long;

For though the sky cloudy today may appear,

Tomorrow it may be all sunny and clear.

Don’t always be grumbling because you have not

All that you may wish for; be content with your lot.

Don’t despise any man because he is poor;

His heart may be truer than one who has more,

And he be more willing to succor his friends

Than he on whom wealth or fortune attends.

Don’t miss any chances to do a good deed,

The naked to clothe, the hungry to feed;

For you never will be the loser thereby,

And may be rewarded—who knows?—by and by.