Original Poetry.
NEVER DESPAIR.
O, never give way to despair, my boys, 0, never give way to despair; Although you get baulked of oxpeeted joys, Give no room in your breast for care.
There are none of us all have our sorrowi to seek, Unbidden their visits they pay j But let's faco them and fight them until they retreat, For " where there's a will there's a way." We may have had many a chance to do well, And let it go heedleesly by, But don't let us fret, for wo never can tell, But the best chance of all may be nigh.
We may ne'er have, as yet, struck the mm while 'twas hot, Bub let it cool down 'neath our gase; But brooding it o'er will not mend it one jot, So let's strike when 'tis next in a blase.
Our f hture, God knows, may be shrouded in mist, Onr sky may he black as a pall; Bat daring, or fearing, say, Which can Must In helping iis best through it all ? - Then onward, and upward; forever ahead j And banished be "what might have been," -: ■■' •' For the days that are coming hold sunshine in store, As bright as has ever been seen, Jas. Siwraoy, ThamM.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3383, 25 October 1879, Page 1
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209Original Poetry. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3383, 25 October 1879, Page 1
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