Northam Saint
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Does anyone have anything, be it a poem, verse or saying that has stuck in their mind for many years ?
Mine is this.
I recall being around 12-13 and going to Boys Brigade camp. We were set tasks to do towards an award, I was a bit lazy and of course tasks set are harder if you don’t spread the load. I was indeed way, way, behind the others. So one of the leaders, Mrs Overton placed this in my notebook after I had completed all the tasks, it’s kept in my mind all these years.
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.
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!
Mine is this.
I recall being around 12-13 and going to Boys Brigade camp. We were set tasks to do towards an award, I was a bit lazy and of course tasks set are harder if you don’t spread the load. I was indeed way, way, behind the others. So one of the leaders, Mrs Overton placed this in my notebook after I had completed all the tasks, it’s kept in my mind all these years.
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.
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!