When things
go wrong,
As they sometimes
will,
When the
road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the
funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want
to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is
pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you
must, but don’t you quit.
Life is
queer with its twists and turns,
As every one
of us sometimes learns,
And many a
failure turns about
When he
might have won had he stuck it out.
Don’t give
up though the pace seems slow-
You may
succeed with another blow.
Success is
failure inside out-
The silver
tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you
never can tell how close you are,
It may be
never when it seems so far;
So stick to
the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when
things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.
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