--- title: Song of Life date: 2007-03-07T16:16:32Z modified: 2007-03-07T16:16:32Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/song-of-life/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 111 categories: - Life Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2007-03-07T16:16:32Z tags: - Life Poems --- A traveler on a dusty road Strewed acorns on the lea; And one took root and sprouted up And grew into a tree. Love sought its shade at evening time, To breathe its early vows; And age was pleased, in heights of noon, To bask beneath its boughs. The dormouse loved its dangling twigs, The birds sweet music bore- It stood a glory in its place, A blessing evermore. A little spring had lost its way Amid the grass and fern; A passing [stranger](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-stranger-in-paradise.md) scooped a well Where weary men might turn. He walled it in, and hung with care A ladle on the brink; He thought not of the deed he did, But judged that toil might drink. He passed again; and lo! the well, By summer never dried, Had cooled ten thousand parched tongues, And saved [a life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/a-life.md) beside. A nameless man amid the crowd That thronged the daily mart, Let fall a word of hope and love, Unstudied, from the heart, A whisper of the tumult thrown, A transitory breath, It raised a brother from the dust, It saved a soul from death. O germ! o fount! o word of hope! O thought at random cast! Ye were but little at the first, But mighty at the last. by Charles MacKay