Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

<p><SPAN name="link2H_4_0025" id="link2H_4_0025"></SPAN></p> <br/> <h2> Carry On! </h2> <p>It's easy to fight when everything's right,<br/> And you're mad with the thrill and the glory;<br/> It's easy to cheer when victory's near,<br/> And wallow in fields that are gory.<br/> It's a different song when everything's wrong,<br/> When you're feeling infernally mortal;<br/> When it's ten against one, and hope there is none,<br/> Buck up, little soldier, and chortle:<br/> <br/> Carry on! Carry on!<br/> There isn't much punch in your blow.<br/> You're glaring and staring and hitting out blind;<br/> You're muddy and bloody, but never you mind.<br/> Carry on! Carry on!<br/> You haven't the ghost of a show.<br/> It's looking like death, but while you've a breath,<br/> Carry on, my son! Carry on!<br/> <br/> And so in the strife of the battle of life<br/> It's easy to fight when you're winning;<br/> It's easy to slave, and starve and be brave,<br/> When the dawn of success is beginning.<br/> But the man who can meet despair and defeat<br/> With a cheer, there's the man of God's choosing;<br/> The man who can fight to Heaven's own height<br/> Is the man who can fight when he's losing.<br/> <br/> Carry on! Carry on!<br/> Things never were looming so black.<br/> But show that you haven't a cowardly streak,<br/> And though you're unlucky you never are weak.<br/> Carry on! Carry on!<br/> Brace up for another attack.<br/> It's looking like hell, but&mdash;you never can tell:<br/> Carry on, old man! Carry on!<br/> <br/> There are some who drift out in the deserts of doubt,<br/> And some who in brutishness wallow;<br/> There are others, I know, who in piety go<br/> Because of a Heaven to follow.<br/> But to labour with zest, and to give of your best,<br/> For the sweetness and joy of the giving;<br/> To help folks along with a hand and a song;<br/> Why, there's the real sunshine of living.<br/> <br/> Carry on! Carry on!<br/> Fight the good fight and true;<br/> Believe in your mission, greet life with a cheer;<br/> There's big work to do, and that's why you are here.<br/> Carry on! Carry on!<br/> Let the world be the better for you;<br/> And at last when you die, let this be your cry:<br/> <i>CARRY ON, MY SOUL! CARRY ON!</i><br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />