"Walkers with the Dawn"

Being walkers with the dawn and morning,

Walkers with the sun and morning,

We are not afraid of night,

Nor days of gloom,

Nor darkness –

Being walkers with the sun and morning.

Langston Hughes

Thank you

For each morning with its light,

For rest and shelter of the night,

For health and food,

For love and friends,

For everything Thy goodness sends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a tree flowers

When a tree flowers

When a tree fruits

My heart bows

"Let me be dressed fine ...."

Let me be dressed fine as I will,

Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.

Isaac Watts

"Happy the man ...."

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

John Dryden