Your life is a tangle of fret and of fume? Just do a bit of good work. It will clear out the cobwebs and scatter the gloom If you do a bit of good work. Like magic the wrinkles will vanish away, And worry will fly from the heart of the day, And sunshine will banish the ominous gray, When you do a bit of good work. The world is unfriendly, and you are alone? Just do a bit of good work. There's many a friendship has budded and grown About a bit of good work. The world hates a sluggard and bids him be gone, The world loves a worker and runs to look on; If a crowd you would gather, your overalls don, And do a bit of good work. Temptations assail you and lure you to sin? Just do a bit of good work. The battle is ended if you will begin To do a bit of good work. For Satan, that ever-industrious foe, Is easily routed by hammer or hoe, And back to his demons the devil will go As you tackle a bit of good work. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A TIME TO DANCE by CECIL DAY LEWIS I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE by JAMES GALVIN DAWN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: GODWIN JAMES by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JAMES GARBER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TO MILITARY PROGRESS by MARIANNE MOORE |