A Happy Life

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"A Happy Life"

With just a little garden

And a goat or a cow,

And a bright mind to think

And to plan just how

A happy life is made

With a spade and a plow

When you have a little garden

and a goat or a cow.

Just a bunch of babies

And a mountain of clothes

To make and to mend

And to wash and to fold.

All the meals and the dishes

And the years that go

Make a little piece of Heaven

That a family knows.

When a father and a mother

And the children, too

Learn to love each other

As they ought to do,

There is nowhere a better,

Sweeter place to be

Than encircled in the love

Of that family.

~M. J. Graham