The Happy Man

If you would know a happy man,

Go find the fellow who

Has had a bout with trouble grim

And just come smiling through.

The load is off his shoulders now,

Where yesterday he frowned

And saw no joy in life, to-day

He laughs his way around.

He's done the very thing he thought

That he could never do;

His sun is shining high to-day

And all his skies are blue.

He's stronger than he was before;

Should trouble come anew

He'll know how much his strength can bear

And how much he can do.

To-day he has the right to smile,

And he may gaily sing,

For he has conquered where he feared

The pain of failure's sting.

Comparison has taught him, too,

The sweetest hours are those

Which follow on the heels of care,

With laughter and repose.

If you would meet a happy man,

Go find the fellow who

Has had a bout with trouble grim

And just come smiling through.