ITS ONLY-HOW DID YOU TAKE IT?
Did you tackle that trouble that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide your face from the light of day, With a craven soul and fearful? Oh, a trouble’s a ton, or a trouble’s an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make ft, And it isn’t the fact that you’re hurt that counts, But only—How did you take it? Yo uare beaten to earth? Well, well, what’s that? Come up with a smiling face. It’s nothing against you to fall down flat, Hut to lie there —that’s disgrace. The harder you’re thrown, why the higher you bounce; He proud of your blackened eye! It isn't the fact that you’re licked that counts; It's —How did you fight, and why? And though you he done to death, what then? If you battle the best you could, If you played your part in the world of men, Why, the critic will call it good. Doat.h comes with a crawl or comes with a pounce, And whether he’s slow or spry, It isn’t the fact that you’re dead that counts, Rut only—How did you die? • —E. V. Cooke.
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White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 369, 18 March 1926, Page 10
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196ITS ONLY-HOW DID YOU TAKE IT? White Ribbon, Volume 32, Issue 369, 18 March 1926, Page 10
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