I HAVE FOUND...

I have found such joy in simple things; 

A plain, clean room, a nut-brown loaf of bread...A cup of milk, a kettle as it sings, 

The shelter of a roof above my head,  

And in a leaf-laced square along the floor, 

Where yellow sunlight glimmers through a door.I have found such joy in things that fill 

My quiet days: a curtain's blowing grace, 

A potted plant upon my window sill, 

A rose, fresh cut and placed within a vase; 

A table cleared, a lamp beside a chair, 

And books I long have loved beside me there.

Oh, I have found such joys I wish I might 

Tell every woman who goes seeking far 

For some elusive, feverish delight, 

That very close to home the great joys are: 

The elemental things - old as the race,

Yet never, through the ages, commonplace.

I Have Found Such Joy

by

~Grace Noll Crowell~