HOLD UP YOUR HEAD.
Tra a common schoolboy lesson, Far less often kept than Baid, As through life's rough vale ye pntM on, Hold up your head. Yet 't will well repay your trouble, S-iTe many a par.g, if you iustoad Of orouohiug to the eaith near doable, Hold up your head. When trouble's angry stonu-cloulf gather, No ray to gild the diava il shade, Look up and timt for fairer weather — Hold up your head When foaming waters, curled and crafted, flurjje round— no ground beneath yeur tread— Don't droop your chin, hut boldly bretft it ; Hold up your head. When round yon thickest batile cloiM, Keen ■abret flashing bright and, red, Strike out — to ■hruik but more expose* — Hold up your head. If haply you, through dire inischauces, All guiltless, be to judgmant led, Don t faoe your judge with cowering alauoee ; Hold up your head. There* nothing ever to nnfailiaf In banishing distrust or dread As a clear brow .and eye unquailiig ; Hold up your head. Who coret« aaccess, or fame, or glory, Should walk the earth with manly tread, Tiiu* boar ibis ltuoa our before ye, Hold up your head. — Wm. JoH»a.
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Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 254, 25 December 1873, Page 2
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196HOLD UP YOUR HEAD. Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 254, 25 December 1873, Page 2
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