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Old Age
By Edgar A Guest
I used to think that growing old was reckoned just in years,
But who can name the very date when weariness appears?
I find no stated
time when man, obedient to a law,
Must settle in an easy chair and from the
world withdraw.
Old Age is rather curious, or so it seems to me.
I know
old men at forty and young men at seventy-three.
I'm done with counting life by years or temples turning gray.
No man is old who wakes with joy to greet another day.
What if the body
cannot dance with youth's elastic spring?
There's many a vibrant interest to
which the mind can cling.
'Tis in the spirit Age must dwell, or this would
never be:
I know old men at forty and young men at seventy-three.
Some men keep all their friendships warm,
and welcome
friendships new,
They have no time to sit and mourn the things they used to
do.
This changing world they greet with joy and never bow to late;
On
every fresh adventure they set out with hearts elate
From chilling fear and
bitter dread they keep their spirits free
While some seem old at forty they
stay young at seventy-three.
So much to do, so much to learn, so much in which to share!
With twinkling eyes and minds alert some brave both time and care.
And
this I've learned from other men, that only they are old
Who think with
something that has passed the tale of life is told.
For Age is not alone of
time, or we should never see
Men old and bent at forty and men young at
seventy-three.
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Things Work Out
By Edgar A.
Guest
Because it rains when we wish it wouldn't,
Because men
do what they often shouldn't,
Because crops fail, and plans go wrong-
Some of us grumble all day long.
But somehow, in spite of the care and
doubt,
It seems at last that things work out.
Because we lose where we hoped to gain,
Because we
suffer a little pain,
Because we must work when we'd like to play-
Some
of us whimper along life's way.
But somehow, as day always follows the
night,
Most of our troubles work out all right.
Because we cannot forever smile,
Because we must trudge
in the dust awhile,
Because we think that the way is long-
Some of us
whimper that life's all wrong.
But somehow we live and our sky grows bright,
And everything seems to work out all right.
So bend to your trouble and meet your care,
For the
clouds must break, and the sky grow fair.
Let the rain come down, as it must
and will,
But keep on working and hoping still.
For in spite of the
grumblers who stand about,
Somehow, it seems, all things work out.
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It Couldn't Be Done
By Edgar
A. Guest
Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a
chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who
wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a
grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he
tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that;
At least no
one ever has done it";
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,
And the first thing we knew he'd begun it.
With a lift of his chin and a
bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as he
tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
There
are thousands to prophesy failure;
There are thousands to point out to you,
one by one,
The dangers that wait to assail you.
But just buckle in with
a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat and go to it;
Just start to
sing as you tackle the thing
That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.
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What Counts
By Edgar A
Guest
It isn't the money you're making, it isn't the clothes you
wear,
And it isn't the skill of your good right hand which makes folks
really care.
It's the smile on your face and the light of your eye and the
burdens that you bear.
Most any old man can tell you, most any old man at all,
Who has lived through all sorts of weather, winter and summer and fall,
That riches and fame are shadows that dance on the garden wall.
It's how do you live and neighbor, how do you work and play,
It's how do you say "good morning" to the people along the way,
And it's
how do you face your troubles whenever your skies are gray.
It's you, from the dawn to nighttime; you when the day is
fair,
You when the storm is raging - how do you face despair?
It is you
that the world discovers, whatever the clothes you wear.
You to the end of the journey, kindly and brave and true,
The best and the worst of you gleaming in all that you say and do,
And
the thing that counts isn't money, or glory, or power, but YOU!
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