HOW DID YOU DIE?
Did you tackle that trouble „hat csme your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide yoiir face from the V_M of day With a craven soul and lo;u-t'n7 Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a tiMiblo's an ounce, Or trouble is what you nake t, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how you take il? You. are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling fare : It's nothing against you to fall lown. 1 ; flat, ' But to lie there— that's dis-iraci 1 The harder you're thrown, why the high er you bounce; Be proud of your blackened eye.' It isn't the fact that you're licked tlat counts ; It's how did you fight — and why ? And though you be. done to it:e df'jtb, what then? If you p|ayed your part in- the world of men, Why the critic will call j l* i> 1. Death comes with a crawl, it comes with a pounce, And whether he's slow or spry, It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts, But only how did yo</ <fie? — From "Impertinent Poems, ' by Edmund Vance Cooke.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19060414.2.87
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
Word Count
197HOW DID YOU DIE? Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 2 (Supplement)
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in