Poem: “A Man” by Edgar A. Guest

A Heap o’ Livin’

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A Man

A man doesn’t whine at his losses,
    A man doesn’t whimper and fret,
  Or rail at the weight of his crosses
    And ask life to rear him a pet.
  A man doesn’t grudgingly labor
    Or look upon toil as a blight;
  A man doesn’t sneer at his neighbor
    Or sneak from a cause that is right.

  A man doesn’t sulk when another
    Succeeds where his efforts have failed;
  Doesn’t keep all his praise for the brother
    Whose glory is publicly hailed;
  And pass by the weak and the humble
    As though they were not of his clay;
  A man doesn’t ceaselessly grumble
    When things are not going his way.

  A man looks on woman as tender
    And gentle, and stands at her side
  At all times to guard and defend her,
    And never to scorn or deride.
  A man looks on life as a mission.
    To serve, just so far as he can;
  A man holds his noblest ambition
    On earth is to live as a man.

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