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Show y JUST FOLKS ByElar A. Guest Kj ' THE FAILURE I'd rather be a failure that! the man M who never tried, I d rather seek the mountain top than iml I always stand aside; J! Oh, let me hold some lofty dream and make my desperate fight, And though I fail. I still shall know I tried to serve the right The idlers line the ways of life and VBjrT they are quick to sneer. They note the failing strength of man and greet It with a Jeer, but there la something deep inside which BCOfferi fall to view They never ace the glorious deed the failure tried to do. Some men there are who nev or leave the city's well worn streets, They never know the dangers grim the hold adventurer meets. They never s k a better way nor serve 'fejri a nobler plan ' WJ$ They never risk with failure to ad- Nance the cause of man Oh, better Us to fall and fall in sor- II BB row anil Hennnlr I ! Than stand where all Is Is safe and Sure and never face a care, I Yes, stamp me with the failure's brand and let men sneer at me, For aa I've failed the Lord shall know the man I tried to be. ,i 1 00 |