🌾 Today’s Poem ~ My Creed

My Creed

S. E. Kiser

  This is my creed: To do some good,
    To bear my ills without complaining,
  To press on as a brave man should
    For honors that are worth the gaining;
  To seek no profits where I may,
    By winning them, bring grief to others;
  To do some service day by day
    In helping on my toiling brothers

  This is my creed: To close my eyes
    To little faults of those around me;
  To strive to be when each day dies
    Some better than the morning found me;
  To ask for no unearned applause,
    To cross no river until I reach it;
  To see the merit of the cause
    Before I follow those who preach it.

  This is my creed: To try to shun
    The sloughs in which the foolish wallow;
  To lead where I may be the one
    Whom weaker men should choose to follow.
  To keep my standards always high,
    To find my task and always do it;
  This is my creed—I wish that I
    Could learn to shape my action to it.