Don't Quit!

Long long ago, when I was a little kid, I read a joke in a kids magazine. It went something like this:
"Hey! Did you hear about that man who decided to swim all the way from Karachi to Dubai, all by himself?"
"No. What happened? Did he make it?"
"Well, when he was just a mile away from Dubai, he was too tired and swam back to Karachi."

Yesterday, while I was looking at LibreOffice's screenshots, I came across this beautiful piece of poetry (attributed to Kristone) which reminded me of this joke.

DON'T QUIT!

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest if you must but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver line of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things seem worst,
That you must not quit!

Kristone