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SEEKING for happiness we must go slowly; / The road leads not down avenues of haste; / But often gently winds through by ways lowly, / Whose hidden pleasures are serene and chaste / Seeking for happiness we must take heed / Of simple joys that are not found in speed.
Eager for noon-time's large effulgent splendour, / Too oft we miss the beauty of the dawn, / Which tiptoes by us, evanescent, tender, / Its pure delights unrecognised till gone. / Seeking for happiness we needs must care / For all the little things that make life fair.
Dreaming of future pleasures and achievements / We must not let to-day starve at our door; / Nor wait till after losses and bereavements / Before we count the riches in our store. / Seeking for happiness we must prize this- / Not what will be, or was, but that which _is_.
In simple pathways hand in hand with duty / (With faith and love, too, ever at her side), / May happiness be met in all her beauty / The while we search for her both far and wide. / Seeking for happiness we find the way / Doing the things we ought to do each day.