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Start Where You Stand
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| by Berton Braley |
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Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won't help you in beginning new,
If you
have left it all behind at last
Why, that's enough,
you're done with it, you're through;
This is
another chapter in the book,
This is another race
that you have planned,
Don't give the vanished days
a backward look,
Start where you stand.
The
world won't care about your old defeats
If you can
start anew and win success;
The future is your time,
and time is fleet
And there is much of work and strain
and stress;
Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,
Here is a brand-new trial right at hand,
The future
is for him who does and dares,
Start where you stand.
Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,
To-day's the thing, to-morrow soon will be;
Get in
the fight and face it unafraid,
And leave the past
to ancient history,
What has been, has been;
yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed
nor banned;
Take courage, man, be brave and drive
ahead,
Start where you stand. |
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