Poem: “The Sulkers” by Edgar A. Guest

A Heap o’ Livin’

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The Sulkers

  The world’s too busy now to pause
  To listen to a whiner’s cause;
  It has no time to stop and pet
  The sulker in a peevish fret,
  Who wails he’ll neither work nor play
  Because things haven’t gone his way.

  The world keeps plodding right along
  And gives its favors right or wrong
  To all who have the grit to work
  Regardless of the fool or shirk.
  The world says this to every man:
  “Go out and do the best you can.”

  The world’s too busy to implore
  The beaten one to try once more;
  ‘Twill help him if he wants to rise,
  And boost him if he bravely tries,
  And shows determination grim;
  But it won’t stop to baby him.

  The world is occupied with men
  Who fall but quickly rise again;
  But those who whine because they’re hit
  And step aside to sulk a bit
  Are doomed some day to wake and find
  The world has left them far behind.

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