• Author: Porter, Thomas F.
• Editor: B-7413
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume 5
• Page Number:
• Date: 8 30 1916
• Tags:
• poetry

WHEN YOU SHALL CHOOSE Thomas F. Porter

When you shall choose the course that you would go To reach the goal toward which your powers bend, Let naught your aim and purpose over- throw, But, whate’er comes, press bravely to the end. When you resolve that something you will do That worthy is of brain and mind and thought, Whoe’er opposes, still your work pursue Until it is to full perfection brought. When in your heart you something have to say That, if accepted, will some good bestow, Speek it not once but ever, day by day Until the worlk its worth shall come to know. To sum up all, in every thought and deed Be your own self, determined, firm, intense; No matter who shall frown or who shall heed, Stand bravely up, despite the consequence.