Hope Is Sustenance for Joie De Vivre

All good deeds stem from a belief That we can effect change and bring relief To people in need or those in grief Hope gives us motive, to be brief Eternal springs hope in the human breast To this the lives of great folks best attest No hope and life’s heart will forthwith arrest Hope sends you high atop life’s crest None but the hopeful can weather life In troubled times and in strife When despair pours in thick and rife Cut through it fast with hope’s knife In darkness find a ray of hope To help you with problems cope Wash off doldrums with the soap of hope Get up afresh and up your lope