What Is Life? - A poem by Hulda Fetzer

What Is Life?.

WHAT funny creatures we are here,
We live betwixt a smile and tear;
One time we cry, the other laugh,
When all is said 't is half and half.

But let us keep the bright side out,
Which for a moment do not doubt;
And try to keep the dark side in,
For, oh, the world is full of sin.

We hardly know just what we are,
We only live by some wise power;
But let us live so, as we die,
That we may live again on high.

^__Hulda Fetzer.