Dear Friends,In this month's lovely edition of the Tea Cozy Club by Remembrance Press, (the publisher of the Beautiful Girlhood Companion,) is a beautiful poem by one of my favorite poets, Mr. Edgar A. Guest! I can scarcely read his poetry without tears filling my eyes, and I think you will agree that his delightful writings paint a perfect portrait of the beauty of life and extol its many enchantments in a most auspicious fashion!
~Constant Beauty~
It’s good to have the trees again, the singing of the breeze again,
It’s good to see the lilacs bloom as lovely as of old.
It’s good that we can feel again the touch of beauties real again,
For hearts and minds, of sorrow now, have all that they can hold.
The roses haven’t changed a bit, nor have the lilacs strayed a bit,
They bud and bloom the way they did before the war began.
The world is upside down to‐day, there’s much to make us frown today,
And gloom and sadness everywhere beset the path of man.
But now the lilacs bloom again and give us their perfume again,
And now the roses smile at us and nod along the way;
And it is good to see again the blossoms on each tree again,
And feel that nature hasn’t changed the way we have to‐day.
Oh, we have changed from what we were; we’re not the carefree lot we were;
Our hearts are filled with sorrow now and grave concern and pain,
But it is good to see once more, the blooming lilac tree once more,
And find the constant roses here to comfort us again.
~Edger A. Guest
