THE HEART’S DESIRE
AS YOU TRUDGE ALONG. If you’ll sing a song as you go along, In the face of the real or the fancied wrong, In spite of the doubt if you’ll fight it out And show a heart that is brave and stout ; If you’ll lauglit at the jeers and refuse the tears, You’ll force the ever reluctant cheers That the world denies when a coward cries, To give to the man who bravely tries. And you’ll win success wiEh a little song—lif you’ll sing the song as you go along! If you’ll sing a song as you trudge along.
You’ll see that the singing will make
you strong. And the heavy load and the rugged
road And the .sting and the stripe of the tortuous goad
Will soar with the note that you set
afloat; That the beam will change to a trifling mote ;
That the world is bad when you are sad, And bright and beautiful when glad. That all you ' need is a little song— If you sing the song as you trudge along!
—R. Mela in Fields
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1930, Page 1
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183THE HEART’S DESIRE Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1930, Page 1
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