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As life goes by it fairer grows. Oh, yes, it fairer grows to me. / And may it be so at the close when Death advances lovingly. It is / not greater pomp nor state, nor high ambitions well attained, nor any / stroke of lucky fate, nor wealth that Midas-like I've gained. / Material gains I have not known (my bank account's about the same! ) / and yet the world has fairer grown; with certainty I make this claim. / In love and tenderness and grace, the world grows fairer day by day. / What joy to see a friendly face as we go bravely on our way. Not / cleverness, nor knowledge, wit, do much enhance this life of ours (of / course I know they help a bit), but God be thanked for sun and / flow'rs; for peace beneath the star-strewn skies; for friends who sit / around one's fire; for books, amusing, helpful, wise; for Love that / crowns the heart's desire.