Look On The Bright Side Poem by John Bowring

While through life's tangled paths you rove,
Watch every onward footstep duly;
And if there's little life to love,
O love that little warmly,-truly.


Should pleasure's rays be faint and few,
Let them their every smile retain,
And hope some future may renew
The half-extinguished light again.


While through this troubled world you rove,
Be not to its attractions blind;
And if you find not much to love,
Love well the little that you find.


Thy visitations all-benign
The earth illume-the earth o'erflow;
That ever-gracious smile of Thine
Brings light from mists and joy from woe.