What Is Life To You

To the preacher life’s a sermon,
To the joker life’s a jest.
To the miser life is money.
To the loafer life is rest;
To the lawyer life’s a trial;
To the poet life’s a song;
To the docter life’s a patient
That needs treatment right along.
To the soldier life’s a battle,
To the teacher life’s a school.
Life’s a good thing to the grafter,
It’s a failure to the fool.
To the man upon the engine

Life’s a long and heavy grade;
It’s a gamble to the gambler,
To the mrechant life is trade.
Life is but a long vacation
To the man who loves his work;
Life’s an everlasting effort
To shun duty, to the shirk.
To the earnest Christian worker
Life’s a story ever new;
Life is what we try to make it –
Brother, what is life to you?