Wisdom Expressed in Poetry

Wisdom Expressed in Poetry

An unknown poet has written these words of wisdom:

"You’ve got to have the goods, my boy, if you would finish strong; A bluff may work a little while, but not for very long.

A line of talk, all by itself, will seldom see you thru; You’ve got to have the goods, my boy, and nothing else will do.

The fight is pretty stiff, my boy, I’d call it rather tough. And all along the routes are wrecks of those who tried to bluff.

They could not back their lines of talk to meet the final test; You’ve got to have the goods my boy, and that’s no idle jest"

And R.I. Sharpe has written: "Each is given a bag of tools, a shapless mass -a book of rules; And each must make – ere life is flown –  a stumbling block or a stepping stone"

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