p. 14 | KEEP A-GOING by Benjamin Keech

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 11, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 15.

KEEP A-GOING.

By Benjamin Keech

Tho you're very, very blue, And there's not a joy in view— Keep a-going. Tho at present you may sigh For a grave in which to lie,— Keep a-going. Dead men have no chance to work In this bad old world. Why shirk? Devils round the idle lurk— Keep a-going.

Tho you toil from day to day With no brightness in your way,— Keep a-going. Tho there's naught to make you glad, And you're weak, and sick, and sad,— Keep a-going. Tho your heart's as cold as ice, Love will make it warm and nice; Let this, then, your case suffice— Keep a-going.

Every word of hope you say Cheers some traveler on his way— Keep a-going. Every decent deed you do, Helps some mortal to be true— Keep a-going. Don't give up. Some other's fall May rest on you if you call This life vain. Help counts, tho small— Keep a-going.

Sometime, in the days to come, Men shall say of you, "Well done"— Keep a-going. They will give the praise that they Do withhold from you to-day— Keep a-going. Then, in Honor's steady light, You will see it pays to fight For the cause that's good and right— Keep a-going.

BENJAMIN KEECH.