Poem “Our Blessings” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Our Blessings

Sitting to-day in the sunshine,
  That touched me with fingers of love,
I thought of the manifold blessings
  God scatters on earth, from above;
And they seemed, as I numbered them over
  Far more than we merit or need
And all that we lack is the angels
  To make earth a heaven indeed.

The winter brings long, pleasant evenings,
  The spring brings a promise of flowers
That summer breathes into fruition,
  And autumn brings glad, golden hours.
The woodlands re-echo with music,
  The moonbeams ensilver the sea;
There is sunlight and beauty about us,
  And the world is as fair as can be.

But mortals are always complaining.
  Each one thinks his own a sad lot;
And forgetting the good things about him,
  Goes mourning for those he has not.
Instead of the star-spangled heavens,
  We look on the dust at our feet;
We drain out the cup that is bitter,
  Forgetting the one that is sweet.

We mourn o’er the thorn in the flower,
  Forgetting its odor and bloom;
We pass by a garden of blossoms,
  To weep o’er the dust of the tomb.
There are blessings unnumbered about us,–
  Like the leaves of the forest they grow;
And the fault is our own–not the Giver’s–
  That we have not an Eden below.

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