[198]YOUR LEVEL BEST.Whenyou stand within Life’s limelight to declaim your littlepiece—Let your hearers chip and chivvy as theymay—And you go on nigh despairing, ’neath your mummer-paint and grease,As you massacre the part you have to play:You may come before the curtainAnd erect your ragged crest,If you’re absolutely certainThat you’ve done your level best!If you’re put away like lumber, on the very topmost shelf,And the phalanx of Success’s pets condemn,Just remember most approval worth a cent comes from yourself,And heave brick for brick, “Old Failure!” back at them:For no matter how they mutter,You are worthy as the rest,When you’re lying in the gutter,If the gutter is your best!
Whenyou stand within Life’s limelight to declaim your littlepiece—Let your hearers chip and chivvy as theymay—And you go on nigh despairing, ’neath your mummer-paint and grease,As you massacre the part you have to play:You may come before the curtainAnd erect your ragged crest,If you’re absolutely certainThat you’ve done your level best!If you’re put away like lumber, on the very topmost shelf,And the phalanx of Success’s pets condemn,Just remember most approval worth a cent comes from yourself,And heave brick for brick, “Old Failure!” back at them:For no matter how they mutter,You are worthy as the rest,When you’re lying in the gutter,If the gutter is your best!
Whenyou stand within Life’s limelight to declaim your littlepiece—Let your hearers chip and chivvy as theymay—And you go on nigh despairing, ’neath your mummer-paint and grease,As you massacre the part you have to play:You may come before the curtainAnd erect your ragged crest,If you’re absolutely certainThat you’ve done your level best!If you’re put away like lumber, on the very topmost shelf,And the phalanx of Success’s pets condemn,Just remember most approval worth a cent comes from yourself,And heave brick for brick, “Old Failure!” back at them:For no matter how they mutter,You are worthy as the rest,When you’re lying in the gutter,If the gutter is your best!
Whenyou stand within Life’s limelight to declaim your littlepiece—Let your hearers chip and chivvy as theymay—And you go on nigh despairing, ’neath your mummer-paint and grease,As you massacre the part you have to play:You may come before the curtainAnd erect your ragged crest,If you’re absolutely certainThat you’ve done your level best!
Whenyou stand within Life’s limelight to declaim your littlepiece—
Let your hearers chip and chivvy as theymay—
And you go on nigh despairing, ’neath your mummer-paint and grease,
As you massacre the part you have to play:
You may come before the curtain
And erect your ragged crest,
If you’re absolutely certain
That you’ve done your level best!
If you’re put away like lumber, on the very topmost shelf,And the phalanx of Success’s pets condemn,Just remember most approval worth a cent comes from yourself,And heave brick for brick, “Old Failure!” back at them:For no matter how they mutter,You are worthy as the rest,When you’re lying in the gutter,If the gutter is your best!
If you’re put away like lumber, on the very topmost shelf,
And the phalanx of Success’s pets condemn,
Just remember most approval worth a cent comes from yourself,
And heave brick for brick, “Old Failure!” back at them:
For no matter how they mutter,
You are worthy as the rest,
When you’re lying in the gutter,
If the gutter is your best!
[199][Illustration: People being directed to their eternal destiny]“Where no scallywag or sinnerMay be counted as a guest.”
[199][Illustration: People being directed to their eternal destiny]“Where no scallywag or sinnerMay be counted as a guest.”
“Where no scallywag or sinnerMay be counted as a guest.”
“Where no scallywag or sinnerMay be counted as a guest.”
“Where no scallywag or sinnerMay be counted as a guest.”
“Where no scallywag or sinnerMay be counted as a guest.”
“Where no scallywag or sinner
May be counted as a guest.”
[200]Mark the “pity for a failure!” as the motor-hog whisks by,And the derelict steps quickly from his path:See the supercilious patronage that lights the preacher’s eye!As he maunders of a glowing aftermath,Where no scallywag or sinnerMay be counted as a guestWhen the trumpet sounds fordinner—Though he did his level best!Never mind, old Rags and Tatters! when you reach the “golden stairs,”You may meet a Godlike cobber, who will say,“Though you’ve hobnobbed with the Devil, and forgot your vesper prayers,You were only as I fashioned forth yourclay—Whether scoffer who denied Me,Or a saint who beat his breast,Only he may stand beside meWho has done his level best!”[Illustration: FINIS]Morton’s Limited, Printers, 75 Ultimo Road, Sydney.
[200]Mark the “pity for a failure!” as the motor-hog whisks by,And the derelict steps quickly from his path:See the supercilious patronage that lights the preacher’s eye!As he maunders of a glowing aftermath,Where no scallywag or sinnerMay be counted as a guestWhen the trumpet sounds fordinner—Though he did his level best!Never mind, old Rags and Tatters! when you reach the “golden stairs,”You may meet a Godlike cobber, who will say,“Though you’ve hobnobbed with the Devil, and forgot your vesper prayers,You were only as I fashioned forth yourclay—Whether scoffer who denied Me,Or a saint who beat his breast,Only he may stand beside meWho has done his level best!”
[200]Mark the “pity for a failure!” as the motor-hog whisks by,And the derelict steps quickly from his path:See the supercilious patronage that lights the preacher’s eye!As he maunders of a glowing aftermath,Where no scallywag or sinnerMay be counted as a guestWhen the trumpet sounds fordinner—Though he did his level best!Never mind, old Rags and Tatters! when you reach the “golden stairs,”You may meet a Godlike cobber, who will say,“Though you’ve hobnobbed with the Devil, and forgot your vesper prayers,You were only as I fashioned forth yourclay—Whether scoffer who denied Me,Or a saint who beat his breast,Only he may stand beside meWho has done his level best!”
[200]Mark the “pity for a failure!” as the motor-hog whisks by,And the derelict steps quickly from his path:See the supercilious patronage that lights the preacher’s eye!As he maunders of a glowing aftermath,Where no scallywag or sinnerMay be counted as a guestWhen the trumpet sounds fordinner—Though he did his level best!
[200]Mark the “pity for a failure!” as the motor-hog whisks by,
And the derelict steps quickly from his path:
See the supercilious patronage that lights the preacher’s eye!
As he maunders of a glowing aftermath,
Where no scallywag or sinner
May be counted as a guest
When the trumpet sounds fordinner—
Though he did his level best!
Never mind, old Rags and Tatters! when you reach the “golden stairs,”You may meet a Godlike cobber, who will say,“Though you’ve hobnobbed with the Devil, and forgot your vesper prayers,You were only as I fashioned forth yourclay—Whether scoffer who denied Me,Or a saint who beat his breast,Only he may stand beside meWho has done his level best!”
Never mind, old Rags and Tatters! when you reach the “golden stairs,”
You may meet a Godlike cobber, who will say,
“Though you’ve hobnobbed with the Devil, and forgot your vesper prayers,
You were only as I fashioned forth yourclay—
Whether scoffer who denied Me,
Or a saint who beat his breast,
Only he may stand beside me
Who has done his level best!”
[Illustration: FINIS]
Morton’s Limited, Printers, 75 Ultimo Road, Sydney.
Transcriber’s NoteInconsistent hyphenation (cocky patch/cocky-patch, fantods/fan-tod, flower-soul/flower soul, Glory rose/glory-rose, hobby-horse/hobby horse, inmost soul/inmost-soul, maiden hair/maidenhair, outback/out-back, rose-leaves/rose leaves/roseleaf, springtime/spring-time, taproom/tap-room, tempest tossed/tempest-tossed, window pane/window-pane) and non-standard spelling (smoothes, cris-crossed) retained.
Inconsistent hyphenation (cocky patch/cocky-patch, fantods/fan-tod, flower-soul/flower soul, Glory rose/glory-rose, hobby-horse/hobby horse, inmost soul/inmost-soul, maiden hair/maidenhair, outback/out-back, rose-leaves/rose leaves/roseleaf, springtime/spring-time, taproom/tap-room, tempest tossed/tempest-tossed, window pane/window-pane) and non-standard spelling (smoothes, cris-crossed) retained.