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Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do, and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle; face it. 'Tis God's gift. Be strong! Say not the days are evil,—who's to blame? And fold the hands and acquiesce—O shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's name. Be strong! It matters not how deep intrenched the wrong, How hard the battle goes, the day how long, Faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do, and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle; face it. 'Tis God's gift. Be strong! Say not the days are evil,—who's to blame? And fold the hands and acquiesce—O shame! Stand up, speak out, and bravely, in God's name. Be strong! It matters not how deep intrenched the wrong, How hard the battle goes, the day how long, Faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Maltbie Davenport Babcock
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 319; printed byline: Maltbie Davenport Babcock; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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