GIZASD TOTS BO be DiliSelslen Cols oan 

Friendship 

IF I SHOULD LIVE AGAIN 
If God decreed that I should live again 
I'd seek not riches, prominence or wealth, 
But take from life its greatest Godly gain, 
That wondrous bliss of living with a flower. 
The ecstasies God’s gorgeous gems inspire, 
Eclipse material gain — mere slavery’s 
dower, 
And brings to being reverence men ac- 
quire, 
Who year on year live near and love the 
flower. 
The blossom may not be of species rare, 
For in each humble buttercup we find 
Each petal does a Godly message bear, 
So matters not the color, scent or kind. 
So should God will that I would live anew, 
In flowered field I'd build my dwelling 
place. 
And not in midst of guile and greed I 
knew 
The first time thru—at best a futile race. 
Poem composed by Mr. Oscar Nelson, Ex. 
Sec., Beloit, Wis., C. of C. 
