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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Do the thing near at hand, and great things will come to your hand to be done. If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill Be a scrub in the valley—but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush if you can't be a tree ...
Do the thing near at hand, and great things will come to your hand to be done. If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill Be a scrub in the valley—but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush if you can't be a tree ...
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a man in the world who is never turned down, wherever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers make hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods ...
a man in the world who is never turned down, wherever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers make hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods ...
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Somewhere she waits to make you win, your soul in her firm, white hands— Somewhere the gods have made for you, ... he would have died, But the touch of her hand, her strong warm hand, And her love of his soul, took full command, ...
Somewhere she waits to make you win, your soul in her firm, white hands— Somewhere the gods have made for you, ... he would have died, But the touch of her hand, her strong warm hand, And her love of his soul, took full command, ...
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... springs from the heart's desire, Setting the brain and the soul on fire— Oh, what is so good as the heat of it, And what is so glad as the beat of it, And what is so kind as the stern command, Challenging brain and heart and hand?
... springs from the heart's desire, Setting the brain and the soul on fire— Oh, what is so good as the heat of it, And what is so glad as the beat of it, And what is so kind as the stern command, Challenging brain and heart and hand?
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Reined by an unseen tyrant's hand, Spurred by an unseen tyrant's will, Aquiver at the fierce command That goads you up the danger hill, You cry: “O Fate, O Life, be kind! Grant but an hour of respite—give One moment to my suffering mind ...
Reined by an unseen tyrant's hand, Spurred by an unseen tyrant's will, Aquiver at the fierce command That goads you up the danger hill, You cry: “O Fate, O Life, be kind! Grant but an hour of respite—give One moment to my suffering mind ...
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