{"id":110760,"date":"2013-08-27T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/110760\/cpc-pick-apart-poetry-celebrates-labor-day-and-back-to-school\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T20:00:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T00:00:30","slug":"cpc-pick-apart-poetry-celebrates-labor-day-and-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/110760\/cpc-pick-apart-poetry-celebrates-labor-day-and-back-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"CPC PICK-APART POETRY CELEBRATES LABOR DAY AND BACK-TO-SCHOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to the August 2013 Edition of PICK-APART POETRY
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Edgar Guest’s “IT COULDN\u2019T BE DONE” celebrates
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Somebody said it couldn’t be done,
\n But he with a chuckle replied
\n That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one
\n Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried.
\n So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
\n On his face. If he worried he hid it.
\n He started to sing and he tackled the thing
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Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that;
\n At least no one has ever done it”;
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\n And the first thing we knew he’d begun it.
\n With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
\n Without any doubting or quiddit,
\n He started to sing and he tackled the thing
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There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,
\n There are thousands to prophesy failure;
\n There are thousands to point out to you, one by one,
\n The dangers that wait to assail you.
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\n Just take off your coat and go to it;
\n Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
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And we hope our students will exhibit
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\n Adelaide Crapsey (1878\u20131914) called
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The poet pursues his beautiful theme;
\n The preacher his golden beatitude;
\n And I run after a vanishing dream\u2014
\n The glittering, will-o\u2019-the-wispish gleam
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I work and I work till I nearly am dead,
\n And could say what the watchman said\u2014that I could!
\n But still, with a sigh and a shake of the head,
\n \u201cYou don\u2019t understand,\u201d it is ruthlessly said,
\n \u201cThe properly scholarly attitude\u2014
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\n The ne\u2019er to be caught for, properly scholarly attitude\u2014\u201d<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n


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Now I lay me down to rest,
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\n <\/em> Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.\u00a0 ~Chinese Proverb<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n

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Our only goal is simply
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