" Be Hopeful"
Be hopeful, friend, when clouds are dark and days are gloomy, dreary,
Be hopeful even when the heart is sick and sad and weary.
Be hopeful when it seems your plans are all opposed and thwarted;
Go not upon life's battlefield despondent and fainthearted.
And friends, be hopeful of yourself. Do by gone follies haunt you?
Forget them and begin afresh. And let no hindrance daunt you
Though unimportant your career may seem as you begin it.
Press on, for victory's ahead. Be hopeful, friend, and win it.
by: Strickland Gillilan