CANDLES

- by Francis E. Stein

Candle, candle, burning bright, Just one candle for the night.

You will die before dawn's light, By giving of yourself for another's sight.

People, people, scurrying through life, To eternity you are but just one night.

Your dawn is breaking, where went the night, Where went the light in your life's flight?

To curse the darkness or light a light, Which is love, which is right?

Time spent kindly serving another's plight, Will give happiness and purpose to your life.

Many candles burning throught many nights, Will turn many wrongs into many rights.

Oh what a world, oh what a sight, All our candles burning with all that might!

(Dedicated to Mary and to cheerful service to God, country, others and self; the roots of friendship, brotherhood, peace, and the World Brotherhood of Scouting.)

"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit" - Robert H. Shaffer