A Sense of Humor
Edgar A. Guest
1881 to 1959
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"What shall I give him now?" said God.
"He has the strength with which to plod
The ways life, the love of right,
The gift of song the skies are bright.
"Wisdom is planted in his mind,
This man shall be both true and kind,
Earth's shall delight his eyes
And to its glories he rise.
"He shall know right from wrong, and he
of the faith shall be;
What more on him I bestow
Before to earth I let him go?"
Then spake an angel standing near:
"Wisdom is not enough, I fear,
Master, for all that he must do—
him a sense of humor, too.
"Grant him to at petty wrong,
The changing moods which sway the throng;
When cares annoy him, show him then
How laughable angry men!"
Years after, when his strength was tasked,
"What keeps you patient?" he was asked,
"What you brave who are so tried?"
"My sense humor," he replied.
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