If I Were a Sunbeam

IF I WERE A SUNBEAM.

• "If I were a sunbeam,
  I know what I'd do;
  I would seek white lilies,
  Roaming woodlands through.
  I would steal among them,
  Softest light I'd shed,
  Until every lily
  Raised its drooping head.
• "If I were a sunbeam,
  I know where I'd go;
  Into lowly hovels,
  Dark with want and woe:
  Till sad hearts looked upward,
  I would shine and shine;
  Then they'd think of heaven,
  Their sweet home and mine."
• Are you not a sunbeam,
  Child, whose life is glad
  With an inner brightness
  Sunshine never had?
  Oh, as God has blessed you,
  Scatter light divine!
  For there is no sunbeam
  But must die or shine.