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… If you are too weak to journey

Up the mountain, steep and high,

You can stand within the valley,

While the multitude go by.

You can chant in happy measure,

As they slowly pass along;

Though they may forget the singer,

They will not forget the song …  

If you cannot in the conflict

Prove yourself a soldier true,

If where the fire and smoke are thickest

There’s no work for you to do,

When the battlefield is silent,

You can go with a careful tread;

You can bear away the wounded,

You can cover up the dead.

Do not then stand idly waiting

For some greater word to do;

Fortune is a lazy goddess,

She will never come to you.

Go and toil in any vineyard,

Do not fear to do or dare;

If you want a field of labor,

You can find it anywhere.

Ellen M. Gates (1835)

H M Patel Institute of English Training & Research, Vallabh Vidyanagar - 388120, Gujarat, India

Phone : 091-2692-230193, 091-2692-230079