We walk on starry fields of white
And do not see the daisies;
For blessings common in our sight
We rarely offer praises.
We sight for some supreme delight
To crown our lives with splendour,
And quite ignore our daily store
Of pleasures sweet and tender.

Our cares are bold and push their way
Upon our thought and feeling.
They hang about us all the day,
Our time from pleasure stealing.
So unobtrusive many a joy
We pass by and forget it,
But worry strives to own our lives
And conquers if we let it.

There's not a day in all the year
But holds some hidden pleasure,
And looking back, joy oft appear
To brim the past's wide measure.
Who love and labour near us.
We ought to raise our notes of praise
While living hearts can hear us.

We ought to make the moments notes
Of happy, glad Thanksgiving;
The hours and days a silent phrase
Of music we are living.
And so the theme should swell and grow
As weeks and months pass over us,
And rise sublime at this good time,
A grand Thanksgiving chorus.

Full many a blessing wears the guise
Of worry or of trouble.
Farseeing is the soul and wise
Who knows the mask is double.
But he who has the faith and strength
To thank his God for sorrow
Has found a joy without alloy 
To gladden every morrow.