Poem by Robert William Service

Comfort

    Say! You've struck a heap of trouble--
      Bust in business, lost your wife;
    No one cares a cent about you,
      You don't care a cent for life;
    Hard luck has of hope bereft you,
      Health is failing, wish you'd die--
    Why, you've still the sunshine left you,
      And the big, blue sky.

            Sky so blue it makes you wonder
              If it's heaven shining through;
            Earth so smiling 'way out yonder,
              Sun so bright it dazzles you;
            Birds a-singing, flowers a-flinging
              All their fragrance on the breeze;
            Dancing shadows, green, still meadows--
              Don't you mope, you've still got these.

    These, and none can take them from you;
      These, and none can weigh their worth.
    What! you're tired and broke and beaten?--
      Why, you're rich--you've got the earth!
    Yes, if you're a tramp in tatters,
      While the blue sky bends above,
    You've got nearly all that matters,
      You've got God, and God is love.

1. The Blind and the Dead
2. L'Envoi (You who have lived in the Land)
3. The Land of Beyond
4. The Woman and the Angel
5. The Tramps

Lewis Morris Comfort ("THO' love be bought and honour sold")

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