INFLUENCE

Drop a pebble in the water

And its ripples reach out far,

And the sunbeams dancing on them

May reflect them to a star.

Give a smile to someone passing,

Thereby make his morning glad;

It may greet you in the evening

When your own heart may be sad.

Do a deed of simple kindness,

Though its end you may not see.

It may reach, like widening ripples,

Down a long eternity.

JOSEPH NORRIS.

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