Berton Braley Poems

Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won't help you in beginning new,
If you have left it all behind at last
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With doubt and dismay you are smitten
You think there's no chance for you, son?
Why, the best books haven't been written
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TWENTY years of the army, of drawing a sergeant's pay
And helping the West Point shavetails, fresh from the training school
To handle a bunch of soldiers and drill 'em the proper way
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