Friday, November 03, 2006

Quit

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 never 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 if he'd stuck it out;
Stick to your task, thought the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with one more blow

Success if failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt -
And you never can tell how close you are,
it may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that YOU MUSN'T QUIT.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is blogger.com not poetry.com. Why not try posting an actual blog?

Dana said...

Who wrote this? I've read it before and really liked it. Thanks for the reminder!