Wishing Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Wishing

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Do you wish the world were better?
Let me tell you what to do:
Set a watch for your actions,
Keep them always straight and true;
Rid tour mind of selfish motives;
Let your thoughts be clean and high.
You can make a little Eden
Of the sphere you occupy.

Do you wish the world were wiser?
Well, suppose you made a start,
By accumulating wisdom
In the scrapbook of your heart:
Do not waste one page on folly;
Live to learn, and learn to live.
If you want to give men knowledge
You must get it, ere you give.

Do you wish the world were happy?
Then remember day by day
Just to scatter seeds of kindness
As you pass along the way;
For the pleasures of the many
May ofttimes traced to one,
As the hand that plants an acorn
Shelters armies from the sun.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Shaun Cronick 28 March 2020

A great and worthy message displayed for one and all. Sublime and simply superb.

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Vansh katoch 22 August 2019

This poem is very good and kind

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Amrita Grewal 20 May 2008

This is beautiful! Good words to set your moral compass to.

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Johnstown Center / Rock County / Wisconsin
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