DON’T QUIT

• When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
• When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
• When the funds run low and the debts are high,
• And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
• When care is pressing you down a bit,
• Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
• Life is strange with it’s twists and turns,
• As everyone of us sometimes learns,
• And many a failure turns about
• When he might have won had he stuck it out;
• Don’t give up though the pace seems slow-
• You may succeed with another blow.
• Success is failure turned inside out-
• The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
• And you never can tell just how close you are,
• It may be near when it seems so far;
• So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit-
• It’s when things seem worst…that you must not quit.

from: Salesian Missions Tract # 40288G