• Author: Bangs, John Kendrick
• Editor: B-7413
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume 6
• Page Number:
• Date: 7 25 1917
• Tags:
• poetry

THE THOUGHT GARDEN.

A Thought is but a Seed deep in the Mind That, if you cultivate it, you will find Will bloom in some achievement, ill or glad, According as the Seed is good or bad; A Thought of Joy will fill your day of Peace, And give your Soul from darkness quick release; A Thought of Meanness, or of Evil Deeds, Will fill your inner Garden full of Weeds, And choke the Blooms that might be blossoming Like fragrant bowers in the early spring.

—John Kendrick Bangs.