Poem: “Success And Failure” by Edgar A. Guest

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Success And Failure

  I do not think all failure’s undeserved,
    And all success is merely someone’s luck;
  Some men are down because they were unnerved,
    And some are up because they kept their pluck.
  Some men are down because they chose to shirk;
  Some men are high because they did their work.

  I do not think that all the poor are good,
    That riches are the uniform of shame;
  The beggar might have conquered if he would,
    And that he begs, the world is not to blame.
  Misfortune is not all that comes to mar;
  Most men, themselves, have shaped the things
    they are.

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