Beautiful Things
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Beautiful faces are those that wear-
It matters little if dark or fair-
Whole-souled honesty printed there.
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Beautiful eyes are those that show,
Like crystal panes were heartburning glow,
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.
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Beautiful lips are those whose words
Leap from the heart like songs of birds,
Yet whose utterance prudence girds.
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Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is honest and brave and true,
Moment by moment the long day through.
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Beautiful feet are those that go
On kindly ministries to and fro,
Down lowliest ways if God wills it so.
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Beautiful shoulders are those that bear
Ceaseless burdens of homely care
With patient grace and daily prayer.
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Beautiful lives are those that bless
Silent rivers of happiness,
Whose hidden fountains but few may guess.
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Beautiful twilight at set of sun,
Beautiful goal with race well run,
Beautiful rest with work well done.
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Beautiful graves were grasses creep,
Where brown leafs fall, where drifts lie deep
Over worn out hands-oh! Beautiful sleep!
by Ellen P. Allerton
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