OUR WORLD

We make the world in which we live
By what we gather and what we give
By our daily deeds and the things we say
By what we keep or we cast away
....We make the world by the beauty we see
....In a skylark's song or a lilac tree
....In a butterfly's wing in the pale moon's rise
....And the wonder that lingers in the midnight skies
We make our world by the life we lead
By the friends we have by the books we read
By the pity we show in the hour of care
By the loads we lift and the love we share
....We make our world by the goals we pursue
....By the heights we seek and the higher view
....By hopes and dreams that reach the sun
....And a will to fight till the heights are won
What is the place in which we dwell
A hut or a palace a heaven or hell
We gather and scatter, we take and we give
We make our world and there we live