Monday, July 29, 2019

See It Through

When life tumbles in (as it does on all of us) we have to make new choices and set new goals—we can no longer go on the way we have before.  When life tumbles in we have only two choices really:  ignore it (give up, pretend it isn’t real) or “see it through” as the poet Edgar Guest suggested:


When you’re up against a trouble,
Meet it squarely, face to face;
Lift your chin and set your shoulders,
Plant your feet and take a brace.
When it’s vain to try to dodge it,
Do the best that you can do;
You may fail, but you may conquer, 
See it through!

Black may be the clouds about you
And your future may seem grim,
But don’t let your nerve desert you;
Keep yourself in fighting trim.
If the worst is bound to happen,
Spite of all that you can do,
Running from it will not save you,
See it through!

Even hope may seem but futile,
When with troubles you’re beset,
But remember you are facing
Just what other men have met.
You may fail, but fail still fighting;
Don’t give up, whate’er you do;
Eyes front, head high to the finish,
See it through!




1 comment:

  1. Harold, that is a gem. Thanks for posting. Am going to look Guest up and see what else he wrote.

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