Be Content

Mistaken mortal, ever fretting, Grasping, griudiiiggroauiug, getting - Be content ! If Hum liast enough, be thankful, Just as if thou liast a bankt'ul- Be content ! [f fortune cast thy lot but humble, Earn tby bread and do not grumble - Be content ! :Iave the ricli, tliinkest tliou, no troubleí l'wice thy wealth ; their Sorrows doublé - Be content ! list the lore of learncd sages, L'höSe ',vi.-e nien of the Greiitn ages - Be content ! Tlieir reck'ning up of all earth's riches, Vas compassed in one short phrase, which is - B tontent ! 'lie ricli man gels with all his lieaping 5ut dress, and drink, and food. and sleeping - Be content ! 'hongh in the sleep the rich men gain not, 'oor men sleep when rich men may hot - ■ Be content ! fnHs aboul thy dust shall scatter, hcre guua tliy gold - to Llleo what matter 1 Be content ! iomr'mber, thou for wealth who rakest, ■Nought tliou bronghtest,nought tliou takest." Be content !