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Edgar Guest - The Fight Worth WhileEdgar Guest - The Fight Worth While
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fight worth while on this good old earth Isn`t the fight for a hoard of gold I It isn`t the fight to increase your worth In stocks and bonds and things to hold; It isn`t the fight for a higher place, For a meed of power for a little while, Or to finish first in the grinding race And to bask in glory and pomp and style. The fight worth while is the fight to be Unfettered here by the cords of vice; To set your soul from your body free, To be unswerved by a yellow price; To win the love of your fellowmen, To be a man that they all respect, To lose a fight but to fight again With your shoulders square and your head erect. This is the fight worth while today; To have ideals and to cling to them, To live your life in your own good way In spite of the scoffers who may condemn; To be willing to fail if the victory Would lower your standard of what is right, To be poor in purse, if you have to be, But rich in spirit. Here is a fight! To ask no favors from any man, To conquer yourself, and to face the strife With courage born of your own-made plan, To do your best with your term of life; To shirk no task that you find to do, However bitter it seems to be! And at last when the battle of earth is through To be ready to die, is victory.
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