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TROUBLE.
"What do you know of trouble?" he
said.
"What do I know?" said he;
"I know it is ugly looking ahead
And multiplied three times three.
I know it's a far worse thing to dread
Than ever 'twill really be."

"Have you ever lost when you hoped
to gain?"
"Many a time," said he;
"I've often cherished a dream in vain,
And good it has been for me,
And I never have suffered an hour of
pain
As bad as I feared 'twould be.

"I know the trouble you talk about
Is worse than the hurt you bear,
That the greatest foe of a man is doubt,
So stand to your time of care,
For many a trouble will dwindle out
When it finds that a man is there."

"What do you know of trouble?" he
said.
"This I have learned," said he;
Trouble so ugly when looking ahead
Is multiplied three times three,
And far worse seen through the eyes
of dread
Than ever 'twill really be."

--Edgar A. Guest.
(Copyright, 1923, by Edgar A. Guest.)