Consider

'Tis mean to dream,

And-scheme the obscene.

'Tis prattle to tattle

Over everyday drattle.

God, can consider,

The right or the wrong,

Fate, can consider-

The here and the gone.

I will consider--

The rose or the thorn!

'Tis joyous to conquer,

With love, all victorious--

But, better to do it--

Without, being boisterous!!

Shirley Ruksznis Young ©1972