It Couldn't Be Done

by Edgar Guest (1916) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A cheerful dare to the impossible: the one who buckled in with a grin went and did the thing that couldn't be done.

Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
On his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.…

Themes: encouragement · graduation