It Couldn’t Be Done - Scroll - Poem - by: Edgar Albert Guest

Описание: It Couldn’t Be Done
by: EDGAR ALBERT GUEST

Somebody said
that it couldn’t be done
But he
with a chuckle replied
That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
Who wouldn’t say so
‘till he’d tried it

So he buckled right in
with the trace of a grin
on his face— If he worried
he hid it.
He started to sing
as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done,
and he did it!

Somebody scoffed:
“Oh, you’ll never do that;
At least no one
ever has done it;”
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat
And the first thing we knew he’d begun it

With a lift of his chin
and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting
or quiddit,
He started to sing
as he tackled the thing
That couldn’t be done,
and he did it !

There are thousands
to tell you
it cannot be done,
There are thousands
to prophesy failure,
There are thousands who
will point out to you
The dangers
that wait to assail you

But just buckle in
with a bit of a grin,
Just take off your coat
and go to it;
Just start in to sing
as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it

Per my understanding Edgar A Guest was a NewsPaper Man for thirty years. Ultimately Nationally Syndicated, over hsi career he wrote one poem per day, two hundred fifty poems per year, over 30 years. An estimated seven thousand five hundred editorials in prose. I have only just discovered this great mans work & am eagerly looking forward to more . . .

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