Amazing words,

when you're up against a trouble meted

squarely face to face lifts it chin and

set your shoulders plant your feet and

take a brace when its veins are tryin

dodge it do the best that you can do you

may fail but you may conquer see it

through

black maybe the clouds about you and

your future may seem grim but don't let

your nerve desert you keep yourself in

fighting trim if the worst is found to

happen in spite of all that you can do

running from it will not save you see it

through even hope may seem but futile

when with troubles you're beset to

remember you are facing just what other

men have met you may fail but fall still

fighting don't give up what air you do

eyes front and high to the finish see it
through

the tree that never had to fight for Sun

and sky and air and light but stood out

in the open plain and always got its

share of rain never became a forest king

but lived and died a scrubby thing the

man who never had to toil to gain and

farm his patch of soil who never had to

win his share the Sun the sky and light

and air never became a manly man but

lived and died as he began good timber

does not grow with ease the stronger

wind the stronger trees the further sky

the greater lengths the more the storm

the more the strengths by Sun and cold

by rain and snow in trees and men good

Timbers grow

we're thickest lies the forest growth we

find the patriarchs of both and they

help counsel with the stars whose broken

branches show the scars of many winds

and much of strife this is the common

law of life

figure it out for yourself my lad

you haul that the greatest of men have

had two arms two hands two legs two eyes

and a brain to use if you would be wise

with this equipment they all began so

start for the top and say I can look

them over the wise and great they take

their food from a common plate and

similar knives and forks they use with

similar laces they tie their shoes the

world considers them brave and smart but

you've all they had when they made their

start

you can triumph and come to skill you

can be great if only you will you're

well-equipped for what fight you choose

you have legs and arms and a brain to

use and the man who has risen great

deeds to do began his life is no more

than you you have a handicap you must

face you are the one who must choose

your place you must say where you want

to go how much you will study the truth

to know God has equipped you for life

but he lets you decide what you want to

be carriage must come from the soul

within the man was furnished the will to

win so figure it out for yourself my lad

you were born with all the rage of that

with your equipment they all began get

hold of yourself and say I can

you