Now some days your life seems a pile of gloom

When it’s dark and your heart is not singing its tune

When the flowers are black and the air is like lead

And you’d much rather spend the next two years in bed.

But something that you need to keep in your mind

Is the world can be cruel but can also be kind

And the mist that is there at the start of the day

By the heat of the sun can be soon put away

So be like the sun as it shines every day

Even if there are dark clouds in the way

If you rise and you smile and you hold your head high

You will help both yourself and those others who cry.

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