THE BEATITUDES.
Once Honesty and Faith combined
To find for each a mate.
They searched for Love all in vain,
They only found fierce Hate.
Forever Love eluded them;
For Love is hard to win.
They gave up Love, and searched for Faith,
For Faith, to Love is kin.
When Faith and Honesty are wed,
If Love will place her seal,
Confirmed is then the marriage vow,
From it there’s no appeal
When Love, and Truth, and Honesty,
In wedded life is found;
When Faith shall be their handmaid pure,
The four together bound;
There will be Peace and Harmony,
For Love has found her nest.
Now Happiness will join the throng,
And Love be now at rest.
It is too seldom that is found,
Them all combined in one,
There could be Faith, Truth, Honesty,
And yet sweet Love not won.
But if together all shall dwell,
A heaven on earth is home,
No discord ever will there be,
It is as heaven’s dome.