A Most Motivational Poetry: Boys Of Spirit, Boys of Will

BOYS WANTED

Boys of spirit, boys of will,
Boys of muscle, brain and power,
Fit to cope with anything,
These are wanted every hour.


Not the weak and whining drones,
Who all troubles magnify;
Not the watchword of “I can’t,”
But the nobler one, “I’ll try.”


Do whate’er you have to do
With a true and earnest zeal;
Bend your sinews to the taswk,
“Put your shoulders to the wheel.”


Though your duty may be hard,
Look not on it as an ill;
If it be an honest task,
Do it with an honest will.


In the workshop, on the farm,
At the desk, where’er you be,
From your future efforts, boys,
Comes a nation’s destiny.


- Tommy's first speaker for little boys and girls.
by Thomas W. Handford


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