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The World's Need

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind,
Is all the sad world needs.




Quotes of the Day

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

• Oscar Wilde



Poems of the Day
  • Henry van Dyke
    Sicily, December 1908
    by Henry van Dyke
    O garden isle, beloved by Sun and Sea, -- Whose bluest billows kiss thy curving bays, Whose amorous light enfolds thee in warm rays That fill with fruit each dark-leaved orange-tree, --