Poem: “Gratitude” by Edgar A. Guest

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American Literature – American Poetry – Edgar A. Guest – Poems by Edgar A. Guest – A Heap o’ Livin’
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Gratitude

  Be grateful for the kindly friends that walk
     along your way;
  Be grateful for the skies of blue that smile
     from day to day;
  Be grateful for the health you own, the work
     you find to do,
  For round about you there are men less
     fortunate than you.

  Be grateful for the growing trees, the roses
     soon to bloom,
  The tenderness of kindly hearts that shared your
     days of gloom;
  Be grateful for the morning dew, the grass
     beneath your feet,
  The soft caresses of your babes and all their
     laughter sweet.

  Acquire the grateful habit, learn to see how blest
     you are,
  How much there is to gladden life, how little
     life to mar!
  And what if rain shall fall to-day and you with
     grief are sad;
  Be grateful that you can recall the joys that
     you have had.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Edgar A. Guest – Poems by Edgar A. Guest – A Heap o’ Livin’

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