Excerpt from Life-Colors Our lives are like the paintings made By artist hands. We have the choice Of colors fair, and those that fade We know at first by common voice. But oft we trial make, and then The truth is shown to men again. We choose the blue of truth and find Its strengthening power. But when we For grace in life, we needs must wind The green of hope around. The nook, In Springtime's green, gives promise sure Of life immortal, true, and pure. Ofttimes the Master Artist gives The shape and color too. He knows In dullest shades rare beauty lives; That symmetry of line oft goes With shadows cast upon the earth; That saddest lives to grace give birth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.