BEGIN the day with smiling eyes ; br Pursue the day with smiling lips; br Through clouds perceive the smiling skies br Up where the smiling sunbeam trips. br br Let smiling thoughts within your mind br Drive gloom and cold despair apart, br And promptings of a genial kind br Keep ever growing in your heart. br br Meet trouble with a cheery mien, br Be jovial in the face of care br He routs all mischief from the scene br Who greets it with a jocund air.