The Man with a Smile

The Man with a Smile

Did you ever, my friends, meet the man with the smile, The dear man who just made you feel life was worth while? When you feel kind of lonesome his sweet smile you meet, Then your heart feels like bubbles, like fairies your feet.

His sweet wife is the best little wife in the world, His bright boys are the best e'er the State's flag unfurled; My brain, says he, sometimes it just feels like a sieve, But now, honor bright, boys, it's a grand thing to live.

It's a grand thing to live and to hope for the best, And maybe I won't fail if I'm put- to the test I have not yet arrived where I fain long to be, But by constantly striving I'll yet climb the tree.

This dear man with the smile I would have you all meet, He's the best thing on earth for us mortals to greet; Optimism personified, vision of light, He just radiates sunshine from morning till night,

Though the weather-man's mean as he ever can be, Though in life's time-worn pathway faint light I can see, All my cares simply vanish, are buried the while, When I happen to meet with the man with the smile. May kind heaven watch o'er you, O man with the smile, Who on days dark and sombre sweet joystrains beguile, Your name on heaven's records must sure be on file, May god bless you and keep you, O man with the smile. Ogden, Utah Mollie Higginson