A Poem

Drop a pebble in the water

And its ripples reach out far

And the sunbeams dancing on them


May reflect them to a star.

Give a smile to someone passing,


Thereby making his morning glad;


It may greet you in the evening


When your own heart may be sad.

Do a deed of simple kindness;


Though its end you may not see,


It may reach, like widening ripples,


Down a long eternity.

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