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If one poor burdened toiler o'er life's road, / Who meets us by the way, / Goes on less conscious of his galling load, / Then life, indeed, does pay.
If we can show one troubled heart the gain / That lies alway in loss, / Why, then, we too are paid for all the pain / Of bearing life's hard cross.
If some despondent soul to hope is stirred, / Some sad lip made to smile, / By any act of ours, or any word, / Then, life has been worth while.