HOW DID YOU DIE?
Did you tackle that trouble* that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Oi hide your face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful? Oh, a trouble’s a ton, or a trouble’s an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn’t the fact that you’re hurt that counts, But only how did you take it? You are beaten to earth ! Well, well, what’s that? Come up with a smiling face. It’s nothing against you to fall down flat. But to lie* there—that’s disgra e. The harder you’re thrown, why the higher you bounce, Be proud of your black io*d eye! It isq’t the fact that vou r* in ked that counts; It’s how did you hght- md why? And though you be done to th»- .’eath, what then ? If you battled the best you could, If you played your part in the world of men, Why, the Critic will call it good. Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce, And whether he’s slow or spry, It isn’t the fact that you’re dead that counts, But only, how did you die? —E. V. Cooke.
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White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 256, 18 October 1916, Page 4
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