The Recipe for Success

           It's going onward despite defeat,       
          And fighting staunchly but keeping sweet,
          It's being clean and it's playing fair,
          It's laughing lightly at Dame Despair;
          It's looking up at the stars above
          And drinking deeply of life and love.
          It's struggling on with the will to win
          But taking loss with a cheerful grin,
          It's sharing sorrow and work and mirth
          And making better the good old earth;
          It's doing your job the best you can
          And being just to your fellow man.
          It's serving, striving through strain & stress
          It's doing your noblest that's Success.