HOW TO BE HAPPY

      Are you almost disgusted with life, little man?
      I'll tell you a wonderful trick
      that will bring you contentment, if anything can
      Do something for somebody, quick!

      Are you awfully tired with play, little girl?
      Wearied, discouraged, and sick-
      I'll tell you the loveliest game in the world,
      Do something for somebody quick!

      Though it rains like the rain of the flood, little man
      and the clouds are forbidding and thick,
      You can make the sun shine in your soul, little man
      Do something for somebody, quick!

      Though the stars are like brass overhead, little girl,
      and the walks like a well-heated brick
      and our earthly affairs in a terrible whirl,
      Do something for somebody, quick!

               --   author unknown
      From the Best Loved Poems of the American People