Poem: How did you die<br />Author: Edmund VAnce Cooke (1866 - 1932)<br />Read by Anatoly Suprunyuk<br /><br /><br />Lyrics:<br /><br />Did you tackle that trouble that came your way<br />With a resolute heart and cheerful?<br />Or hide your face from the light of day<br />With a craven soul and fearful?<br />Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce,<br />Or a trouble is what you make it,<br />And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,<br />But only how did you take it?<br /><br />You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that?<br />Come up with a smiling face.<br />It's nothing against you to fall down in flat,<br />But to lie there -- that's disgrace.<br />The harder you're thrown, why the higher you bounce;<br />Be proud of your blackened eye!<br />It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts,<br />It's how did you fight -- and why?<br /><br />And though you be done to the death, what then?<br />If you battled the best you could,<br />If you played your part in the world of men,<br />Why, the Critic will call it good.<br />Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,<br />And whether he's slow or spry,<br />It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts,<br />But only how did you die?<br /><br />1903<br /><br />The best poems:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRYhAMGLwyI&list=PLSF0ZOpeSHNr6n-6uUaHlTvI8O7IMH_Gx<br /><br />The best love poems:<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8KPxQLGrk&list=PLSF0ZOpeSHNrZ5vemB2DnCnW22sfHMDHY<br /><br /><br />Subscribe to channel:<br />https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv5kuOaYVHggW8s2obZDfoQ
