DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY

WHAT IS THIS LIFE WE LOVE SO DEAR?
IS IT DEATH OR PAIN THAT WE MAY FEAR?
THE CLOCK TICKS BY THE PASSING YEARS,
BUT LIFE GOES ON DESPITE OUR FEARS.

FROM BIRTH TO MARRIAGE AND THEN TO DEATH,
IS IT LOVE AND JOY FOR WHICH WE ARE BLESSED?
THE JOY OF LIVING THE LOVE IN OUR HEARTS,
UNTIL BY DEATH THIS LIFE WE DEPART.

FOR WHENCE WE COME AND WHENCE WE GO,
TO WORK AND HOME GOING TO AND FRO,
THE PEOPLE WE MEET WITH LAUGHTER GAY,
OR ARE WE JUST GOING OUR OWN SELFISH WAY?

TRY WE MUST TO BE GOOD AND KIND,
AND GIVE OUR HELP TO THE POOR WE FIND,
EASING THE STRUGGLE FROM DAY TO DAY,
THEN THE JOY AND HAPPINESS WILL COME OUR WAY.

SO I PRAY THEE TO DO AS YOU WOULD BE DONE BY

DO WE CARE MUCH, WHEN PEOPLE LET US DOWN?
YES WE DO, AND WE MUSTN'T START TO FROWN.
JUST STOP TO THINK, BEFORE YOU TOO SORE,
HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOU LET DOWN BEFORE.

JUST REMEMBER WHAT YOU SAY, YOU ALSO HAVE TO REAP
NEVER MAKE A PROMISE YOU DONT INTEND TO KEEP.
WHEN YOUR HELP IS NEEDED, GIVE IT WITH GOOD GRACE
AND WHILE YOU ARE HELPING, HAVE A SMILE ON YOUR FACE.

DONT THINK PEOPLE ARE THERE JUST TO HELP YOU
THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE, WHO NEED YOUR HELP TOO,
SO TRY MAKE THIS PART OF YOUR EVERY DAY PLAN
TO HELP ANYBODY, ANY TIME THAT YOU CAN