Give Me
       A Goal      
                     

Give me always a goal to try for
Let me fight til my breath be spent
Give me a dream to live and die for,
And I shall ever be content.

Keep for others your silken leisure
Drowsy days in the shade or sun
I was never a one to treasure rest,
Til my work is done.

No, for sloth is the worst of sinning
Give me the joy and the zest of the fray,
Finding true reward in the winning
Not in the prizes nor the pay.

And if victory be denied me
I shall not shrink from another test
Nor care at all if my foes deride me
Knowing I did my best.

Somewhere still there are roads enchanted
Somewhere still is an unfound grail.
Let me go onward, valient-hearted
To the end of that last long trail.

Give me always a goal to try for,
Let me fight, til my breath be spent.
Give me a dream to live and die for,
And I shall ever be content.


~~Aurthor unknown~~