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Show EACH STEP WILL TELL By DOUGLAS MALLOCH WE SELDOM face a precipice Where we must choose the right or wrong. "I'is not as simple as all this Then even weaklings would be strong. Life is a path we walk along, The path an easy one to miss, No crimson light, no sounding gong, To warn us of some great abyss. No, step by step we rise or fall, And hardly know we fall or rise ; Each hour directions must recall, And watch the way with open eyes. Below the valley always lies. But they who think to see a wail That separates the earth and skies Will never find it so at alL There never was a major sin Without a minor ere we fell, Some compromise, some giving In, Surrender of some principle. No, we must watch the path, and well, The depths to pass, the heights to win ; Each hour will say, each step will . tell We are what we have always been. . 1932. Douglas Malloch. WNU Service. |