THE POET'S CORNER
This week’s poem is by Ernest Crosby,It contains some capital advice if you read it carefully. Read it in that way, then paste it in your scrap book to read agani later. , LIFE AND DEATHSo he died for his faith. That is fine* More .than most of us do. But, say, can you add to'that line That he lived for it, too ? In his death he bore witness- at las* As a martyr to truth. Did his life do the same in the past. From the days of his youth ? It is easy to die. Men have died For a wish or a whim— . From bravado or passion or pride. Was it harder for him? But to live—every day to live out All the truth that he dreamt . While his friends met his conduct-witH doubt And the world with contempt. Was it thus that he plodded ahead, Never turning aside ? Then we’ll talk of the life that he lived* Never mind how he died. —Ernest Crosby.
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Evening Star, Issue 23680, 13 September 1940, Page 3
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169THE POET'S CORNER Evening Star, Issue 23680, 13 September 1940, Page 3
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