IT CAN BE DONE

POEMS OF INSPIRATION


COLLECTED BY

JOSEPH MORRIS and ST. CLAIR ADAMS




FOREWORD


This is a volume of inspirational poems. Its purpose is to bring men
courage and resolution, to cheer them, to fire them with new confidence
when they grow dispirited, to strengthen their faith that THINGS CAN BE
DONE. It is better for this purpose than the entire works of any one
poet, for it takes the cream of many and has greater diversity than any
one writer can show.

It is made up chiefly of very recent poems--not such as were written for
anthologies of poetical "gems," but such as speak directly to the heart,
always in very simple language, often in the phrases of shop or office
or street. Included, however, with the poems of the day are a few of the
fine old pieces that have been of comfort to men through the ages.

Besides the poems themselves, the volume contains helps to their
understanding and enjoyment. The pieces are introduced by short