• Author: Unknown
• Editor: B-8266
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume V
• Page Number:
• Date: 10 2 1918
• Tags:
• poetry

THE THING THAT COUNTS

It isn’t the work we intend to do, Nor the work we’ve just begun; That puts us up at the ladder’s top, It’s the work we’ve really done. Success is built on the things we do, Defeat of the things we shirk; And theman who counts when the day is thru, Is the man who completes his work. Good intentions will bring no joy, It’s easy to wish and plan; But that is like to the play of a boy, To do is the'test of the man.