| THE RECIPE It�s doing your job the best you can And being just to your fellow man; It�s making money - but holding friends And true to your aims and your ends; It�s figuring out and learning why And looking forward and thinking high And dreaming a little and doing much. It�s keeping always in closest touch With what is finest in word and deed; It�s being thorough, yet making speed; It�s daring blithely the field of chance While making labor a brave romance, It�s going onward despite defeat And fighting staunchly, but keeping sweet; It�s being clean and it�s playing fair; It�s laughing lightly at Dane Despair; It�s looking up at the stars above And drinking deeply of life and love. It�s struggling on with the will to win But taking loss with a cheerful grin; It�s sharing sorrow and work and mirth And making better this gold old earth; It�s serving, striving through strain and stress; It�s doing your noblest - that�s Success! ------------------------ THE BEST FIRM A pretty good firm is �Watch and Waite,� And another is �Attit, Early & Layte.: And still another is �Doo & Dairet;� But the best is probably �Grinn & Barrett.� ---------------------- YOUTH IN OUR HEARTS A health to our future - a sigh for our past, We love, we remember, we hope to the last; And for all the base lies that the almanacs hold, While we�ve youth in our hearts, we can never grow old. ------------------ So may you ask how young am I. I�ll tell you that, and even why: I�m younger today than yesteryear, More full of hope, less held by fear; Because I�ve learned to hold this thought: That things worth while are dearly bought; With courage, all can be achieved. I know. I�ve worked, I�ve hoped, and I�ve believed. ------------------------ A CREED There is a destiny that makes us brothers; None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own. I care not what his temples or his creeds, One thing holds firm and fast - That into his fateful heap of days and deeds The soul of a man is cast. -------------------- THE LAW OF LOVE Make channels for the streams of love Where they may broadly run, And love has overflowing streams To fill them every one. For we must share if we would keep That blessing from above; Ceasing to give, we cease to have, - Such is the law of love. ----------------------- THE PERFECT LIGHT There is a light beyond the light That shines in human eyes; �Tis not the light of moon or stars Or of the bright sunrise. It is the lovelight in your heart And if you�re filled with grace This perfect light of perfect love Will shine upon your face. |
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