IT COULDN’T BE DONE – BUT HE DID IT!
This is a wonderful optimistic Poem that I am always reminded of
when someone tells me that something ”Couldn’t be done”
Enjoy:
IT COULDN’T BE DONE
By
Edgar A 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.
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 to point out to you, one by one,
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 to sing as you tackle the thing
That “cannot be done,” and you’ll do it.
Edgar Albert Guest was born in Birmingham England in 1881
He became a US citizen and died in Michigan 1959
If you wish to discover more about him
and his sentimental, optimistic poems
Just follow This Link to his Wiki Entry
Or follow This Link for his Poets & Poems listing
Tagged with: Arts • Edgar Albert Guest • Edgar Guest • Poetry
Filed under: Inspiration • positive thinking
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