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TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS

Last Line: DO WE NEED SUCH SHADOWS / HERE IN LIFE?
Subject(s): TRAVEL;

'Tis a little journey
This we walk;
Hardly time for murmurs --
Time for talk.

Yet we learn to quarrel
And to hate;
Afterward regret it
When too late.

Now and then 'tis sunshine --
Sometimes dark;
Sometimes care and sorrow
Leave their mark.

Yet we walk the pathway
Side by side;
Where so many others
Lived and died.

We can see the moral,
Understand;
Yet we walk not always
Hand in hand.

Why must there be hatred?
Greed and strife?
Do we need such shadows
Here in life?



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