If I can send a single ray of light across the darkened pathway of another;
If I can aid some soul to clearer sight of life and duty, and thus bless my brother;
If I can wipe from any human cheek a tear,
I shall not have lived my life in vain while here.
If I can guide some erring one to truth, inspire within his heart a sense of duty;
If I can plant within my soul of rosy youth a sense of right, a love of truth and beauty;
If I can teach one man that God and heaven are near,
I shall not have lived my life in vain while here.
If from my mind I banish doubt and fear, and keep my life attuned to love and kindness;
If I can scatter light and hope and cheer, and help remove the curse of mental blindness;
If I can make more joy, more hope, less pain,
I shall not have lived my life in vain while here.
If by life's roadside I can plant a tree, beneath whose shade some wearied head may rest;
though I may never share it's beauty, I shall be truly blest-though no one knows my name,
nor drops a flower upon my grave,
I shall not have lived ny life in vain while here.
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