It Can Be DoneThis is a volume of inspirational poems. Its purpose is to bring men courage and resolution, to cheer them, to fire them with new confidence when they grow dispirited, to strengthen their faith that THINGS CAN BE DONE. It is better for this purpose than the entire works of any one poet, for it takes the cream of many and has greater diversity than any one writer can show. |
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“I have not yet begun to fight,” was his answer. When the surrender took place, it was not Jones's ship that became the prize of war. Everybody admires a hard fighter—the man who takes buffets standing up, and in a spirit of “Never say ...
“I have not yet begun to fight,” was his answer. When the surrender took place, it was not Jones's ship that became the prize of war. Everybody admires a hard fighter—the man who takes buffets standing up, and in a spirit of “Never say ...
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It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts; It's how did you fight—and why? And though you be done to the death, what then? If you battled the best you could, If you played your part in the world of men, Why, the Critic will call ...
It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts; It's how did you fight—and why? And though you be done to the death, what then? If you battled the best you could, If you played your part in the world of men, Why, the Critic will call ...
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Though the river was full of ice He did not think about it twice, But started across in the dead of night, The enemy waiting to open the fight. Likely feeling pretty blue, Being human, same as you, But he was brave amid despair, ...
Though the river was full of ice He did not think about it twice, But started across in the dead of night, The enemy waiting to open the fight. Likely feeling pretty blue, Being human, same as you, But he was brave amid despair, ...
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Fighting upon the terror field Where man and Fate came breast to breast, Prest by a thousand foes to yield, ... O Life— The strongest spirit soon must break Before this allunequal strife, This endless fight for failure's sake!
Fighting upon the terror field Where man and Fate came breast to breast, Prest by a thousand foes to yield, ... O Life— The strongest spirit soon must break Before this allunequal strife, This endless fight for failure's sake!
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But in his sapient eyes I saw the spirit that had urged him on, The courage that had held him through the fight Had once been mine, I thought, “Can it be gone?” He felt that unasked question—felt it so His pale lips formed the oneword ...
But in his sapient eyes I saw the spirit that had urged him on, The courage that had held him through the fight Had once been mine, I thought, “Can it be gone?” He felt that unasked question—felt it so His pale lips formed the oneword ...
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