Edgar Albert Guest Poems

Less hate and greed
Is what we need
And more of service true;
More men to love
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Life is a jest;
Take the delight of it.
Laughter is best;
Sing through the night of it.
Swiftly the tear
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Think happy thoughts!
Think sunshine all the day;
Refuse to let the trifling worries stay,
Crowd them with thoughts of laughter from your mind.
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YOU can't pay back in dollars what your father does for you,
You can't repay in kindness all the tenderness he shows;
You little know the perils he has safely brought you through,
And the wealth of Rockefeller this account would never close.
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I do not think all failure's undeserved,
And all success is merely someone's luck;
Some men are down because they were unnerved,
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OTHERS may laugh at my feeble endeavor
To capture life's prizes, and others may sneer;
The whole world may loudly declare I shall never
Be worthy the gunpowder to blow me from here.
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He was going to be all that a mortal should be
Tomorrow.
No one should be kinder or braver than he
Tomorrow.
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There are different kinds of heroes, there are some you hear about.
They get their pictures printed, and their names the newsboys shout;
There are heroes known to glory that were not afraid to die
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Though victory's proof of the skill you possess,
Defeat is the proof of your grit;
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When day is done and the night slips down,
And I've turned my back on the busy town,
And come once more to the welcome gate
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