As the Optimist Sees It.

As the Optimist Sees It.
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The is not wholly false; beneath the sured and wrong
The gorgeous trappings of a wasteful
The great heart of the world beats sure and strong
And, as of old, love girds men for the fray.
The pessimist may preach his dreary creed,
But somewhere in the darkness and the gloom
A hand outstretched shall meet onr direst need
And the rough path with heartsease be abloom.
Above the diapason of the wars
The crash that speaks a nation’s over- throw,
Sweet and Insistent throb the tender barn
Of an old song the world learned years ago.
And he who hearkens knows that life in good
That human nature is not wholly ill So long as men are branded in one broth erhood,
So long as they are fathered by one WIIL
-Hays Blackman