“IT CAN BE DONE.”
“Somebody said that it couldn’t be done, But he, with a chuckle, replied That ‘maybe it couldn’t, but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so ’till he’d tried.’ So he buckled right In, with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried, he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and be did it. “Somebody scoffed: ‘Oh, you’ll never do that; At least, no one ever has done it.' But he took off his coat and be took off bis bat, And the first thing he knew he’d begun it; With a lift of the chin and a bit of a grin Without any doubting or quit it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it. “There are thousands to tell you it 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 you; But just buckle in, with a bit ot 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 “Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1522, 14 March 1916, Page 4
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219“IT CAN BE DONE.” Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1522, 14 March 1916, Page 4
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