We should cultivate our different tastes
And display them with modest grace;
Though all our tastes are not the same,
Of course we are not to blame.

But if we pursue the different arts
We will find a taste for something;
No matter what your taste may be,
Have courage to cultivate something.

We must find a taste for something—
Music, needlework or painting;
Each of these arts has its charm,
If you cultivate either 'twill do no harm.

Each one should strive hard
To find out what she can best do,
And when she finds her place
Fill it as if she always knew.

Everybody has a gift
If they did but know it,
And if you cultivate some taste
Your study will soon show it.

I studied the art of needlework,
And was soon adopted to it;
And as I studied farther on
I discovered that I was a poet.

I then and there began to write
And I am still sticking to it,
And some of the best critics in the land
Have indorsed me as a poet.

I believe in doing something good,
Why not? It is best to do it,
For you are adding to the world
If you only did but know it.

Now when we study Nature's law
It gives us thought and action,
Then we begin to realize
That we are God's invention.