Poem: “Duty” by Edgar A. Guest

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American Literature – American Poetry – Edgar A. Guest – Poems by Edgar A. Guest – A Heap o’ Livin’
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Duty

To do your little bit of toil,
    To play life’s game with head erect;
  To stoop to nothing that would soil
    Your honor or your self-respect;
  To win what gold and fame you can,
  But first of all to be a man.

  To know the bitter and the sweet,
    The sunshine and the days of rain;
  To meet both victory and defeat,
    Nor boast too loudly nor complain;
  To face whatever fates befall
  And be a man throughout it all.

  To seek success in honest strife,
    But not to value it so much
  That, winning it, you go through life
    Stained by dishonor’s scarlet touch.
  What goal or dream you choose, pursue,
  But be a man whate’er you do!

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