Did you deal with that bother that got here your manner
With a resolute coronary heart and cheerful?
Or cover your face from the sunshine of day
With a craven soul and fearful?
Oh, a bother’s a ton, or a bother’s an oz.,
Or a bother is what you make it,
And it is not the truth that you are harm that counts,
However solely how did you are taking it?
You might be overwhelmed to earth? Nicely, properly, what’s that?
Provide you with a smiling face.
It is nothing towards you to fall down flat,
However to lie there — that is shame.
The more durable you are thrown, why the upper you bounce;
Be happy with your blackened eye!
It is not the truth that you are licked that counts,
It is how did you struggle — and why?
And although you be carried out to the demise, what then?
In the event you battled the very best you might,
In the event you performed your half on the planet of males,
Why, the Critic will name it good.
Loss of life comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,
And whether or not he is sluggish or spry,
It is not the truth that you are useless that counts,
However solely how did you die?
By Edmund Vance Cooke
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