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::The Quitter::

It's the plugging away
that will win you the day

So don't be a piker, old pard!

Just draw on your grit;
it's so easy to quit.

It's the keeping-your-chin-up
that's hard.

It's easy to cry
that you are beaten, and die
It's easy to crawfish and crawl

But to fight and to fight
when hope's out of sight-

why, that's the
best game of them all!

And though
you come out of each gruelling bout,
All broken and beaten and scarred

Just have one more try-
it's dead easy to die

It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.


By: Robert W. Service,
from Collected Poems of Robert Service
(New York: Dodd,Mead & Co.,1996)

This is my mother's favourite poem.
-Posted on June 7, 2008.-

The world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
-Helen Keller

nice to meet you.

---char---

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