The Stick-Together Families

The strick-together families are happier by far

Than the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are.

The gladdest people living are the wholesome folks who make

a circle at the fireside that no power but death can break.

And the finest of conventions ever held beneath the sun

Are the little family gatherings when busy day is done.

There are rich folk, there are folk poo, who imagine they are wise,

And they are very quick to shattre out the little family ties.

Each goes searching after pleasure in his own selected way, 

each with strangers like to wander, and with strangers likes to play.

But it is bitterness they harvest, and it is empty joy they find,

for the children that are wisest are the stick-together kind.