Explore "Gratitude (Lyrics, Dramatic and Personal)" by Henry Van Dyke on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Do you give thanks for this? -- or that? " / No, God be thanked / I am not grateful / In that cold, calculating way, with blessing / ranked / As one, two, three, and four, -- that would be / hateful.
I only know that every day brings good above / My poor deserving; / I only feel that, in the road of Life, true Love / Is leading me along and never swerving.
Whatever gifts and mercies in my lot may fall, / I would not measure / As worth a certain price in praise, or great or / small; / But take and use them all with simple pleasure.
For when we gladly eat our daily bread, we bless / The Hand that feeds us; / And when we tread the road of Life in cheer- / fulness, / Our very heart-beats praise the Love that leads / us.