"It Can Be Done"

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 March 1916, Page 3

"It Can Be Done"

'•(Somebody said that it- couldn't ue done, ' But he, with a chuckle, lupin."! That 'maybe it couldn't, but he" won! i be one Who wouldn't say so 'tilt he'd tried. ibo he buckled right in, with the trace oi a grin Oil his lace. It he wiuorried, he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the tiling 'lhat couldn't be done, and he did it. "■Somebody scoffed,: 'Oh, you'll nevei do that; At least, no one ever has done it. 11 ul he took oil his coat, and he tonii oli his hat, And the lirst thing we knew, he'd begun it; With a lift of the chin and; a bit oi a. grin Without any doubting or quit it He started to sin# as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he 'did it. ''There are thousands to teli you if cannot be done; There are thousands to prophesy failure; There are thousands to point out to you one by one, The dangers that wait to assail vou; But just buckle in, with a bit of a grin, Then take off your coat and go to it; Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing That 'cannot be done' and you'll do it." —From "Rail-way Engineering audi Maintenance of Way."