A Man's Creed

Good Friend Paul Wineman would share this with the undergraduate brothers at the American Leadership Academy

A MAN'S CREED

Let me live, Oh Mighty Master,
Such a life as men should know;

Testing triumph and disaster-­
Joy---but not too much of woe.

Let me run the gamut  over,

Let me fight and love and laugh,

And when I'm beneath the  clover,

Let this be my epitaph:

Here lies one who took his chances,

In this busy world of men;

Battled luck and circumstances;

Fought  and fell, and fought again;

Won sometimes, but did no crowing;

Lost sometimes, but did not wail;

Took his beating but kept  going;

And never let his courage fail.

--Author Unknown