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A poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

What Is Right Living?

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Title:     What Is Right Living?
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox [More Titles by Wilcox]

What is right living? Just to do your best
When worst seems easier. To bear the ills
Of daily life with patient cheerfulness
Nor waste dear time recounting them.
To talk
Of hopeful things when doubt is in the air.
To count your blessings often, giving thanks,
And to accept your sorrows silently,
Nor question why you suffer. To accept
The whole of life as one perfected plan,
And welcome each event as part of it.
To work, and love your work; to trust, to pray
For larger usefulness and clearer sight.
This is right living, pleasing in God's eyes,
Though you be heathen, heretic or Jew.





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Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem: What Is Right Living?

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