Why o why is it just now that i remember this poem. It is important not to forget the poems that could save us in times of diffulties that we may understand and keep us ready and our feet steady.

Don’t Quit

by John Greenleaf Whittier

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest, if you must, but don’t quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyong of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about When he might have won had he stuck it out,
Dont’ give up though the pace seems slow, You may succeed with another blow.
Success is falure turned inside out, The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far,
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

For all the sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson