By: Robert Service<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
When you’re lost in the Wild, and you’re scared as a child,
\nAnd Death looks you bang in the eye,
\nAnd you’re sore as a boil, it’s according to Hoyle
\nTo cock your revolver and . . . die.
\nBut the Code of a Man says: “Fight all you can,”
\nAnd self-dissolution is barred.
\nIn hunger and woe, oh, it’s easy to blow . . .
\nIt’s the hell-served-for-breakfast that’s hard.<\/p>\n
“You’re sick of the game!” Well, now, that’s a shame.
\nYou’re young and you’re brave and you’re bright.
\n“You’ve had a raw deal!” I know-but don’t squeal,
\nBuck up, do your damnedest, and fight.
\nIt’s the plugging away that will win you the day,
\nSo don’t be a piker, old pard!
\nJust draw on your grit; it’s so easy to quit:
\nIt’s the keeping-your-chin-up that’s hard.<\/p>\n
It’s easy to cry that you’re beaten-and die;
\nIt’s easy to crawfish and crawl;
\nBut to fight and to fight when hope’s out of sight-
\nWhy, that’s the best game of them all!
\nAnd though you come out of each grueling bout,
\nAll broken and beaten and scarred,
\nJust have one more try-it’s dead easy to die,
\nIt’s the keeping-on-living that’s hard.<\/p>\n
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