The Art of Manliness - Manvotionals by Brett McKay

Author:Brett McKay [McKay, Brett]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781440312045
Publisher: F+W Media, Inc.
Published: 2011-10-04T05:00:00+00:00

The Quitter

FROM RHYMES OF A ROLLING STONE, 1912

By Robert Service

When you’re lost in the Wild, and you’re scared as a child,

And Death looks you bang in the eye,

And you’re sore as a boil, it’s according to Hoyle

To cock your revolver and … die.

But the Code of a Man says: “Fight all you can,”

And self-dissolution is barred.

In hunger and woe, oh, it’s easy to blow …

It’s the hell-served-for-breakfast that’s hard.

“You’re sick of the game!” Well, now, that’s a shame.

You’re young and you’re brave and you’re bright.

“You’ve had a raw deal!” I know—but don’t squeal,

Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight.

It’s the plugging away that will win you the day,

So don’t be a piker, old pard!

Just draw on your grit; it’s so easy to quit:

It’s the keeping-your-chin-up that’s hard.

It’s easy to cry that you’re beaten—and die;

It’s easy to crawfish and crawl;

But to fight and to fight when hope’s out of sight—

Why, that’s the best game of them all!

And though you come out of each grueling bout,

All broken and beaten and scarred,

Just have one more try—it’s dead easy to die,

It’s the keeping-on-living that’s hard.

“And having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.” —Abraham Lincoln

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