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A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 14th

A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year, November 14th

GROWING OLD

A little more tired at the close of day,
A little less anxious to have our way;
A little less anxious to scold and blame,
A little more care for a brother's name;
And so we are nearing the journey's end,
Where Time and Eternity meet and blend.

A little less care for bonds and gold,
A little more zest in the days of old;
A broader view and a saner mind,
And a little more love for all mankind;
And so we are faring adown the way
That leads to the gates of a better day.

A little more love for the friends of youth,
A little less zest for established truth;
A little more charity in our views,
A little less thirst for the daily news;
And so we are folding our tents' away
And passing in silence, at close of day.

A little more leisure to sit and dream,
A little more real the things unseen;
A little nearer to those ahead,
With visions of those long-loved and dead;
And so we are going, where all must go,
To the place the living may never know.

A little more laughter, a few more tears,
And we shall have told our increasing years;
The book is closed, and the prayers are said,
And we are a part of the countless dead.
Thrice happy, if then some soul can say,
"I live because he has passed my way."

R. G. WELLS

A Masonic Thought for Each Day of the Year compiled by Alphonse Cerza
Appearing here with the kind permission of the Missouri Lodge of Research.
Copied with mistakes by Lee, from Mount Olivet Lodge, Cambridge MA, USA.
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