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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LUCKLESS MAN, by WALT MASON Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard a fellow say, this morn, 'I've had
Last Line: Luck he's had, since he was but a knee-high lad!
Subject(s): Blindness; Pity; Visually Handicapped
First Line: I heard a fellow say, this morn, 'I've had
Last Line: Luck he's had, since he was but a knee-high lad!
Subject(s): Blindness; Pity; Visually Handicapped
I HEARD a fellow say, this morn, "I've had hard luck since I was born." Yet he
was fixed with hands and feet, and health so good 'twas hard to beat. While he
bemoaned his gloomy fate, and tried to keep his grouch on straight, and while
some maudlin tears he shed, an ailing cripple forged ahead, ambition glowing in
his eyes, and gathered in a handsome prize. A blind man, groping in the dark, in
human annals made his mark. A sick man, toiling with his pen, produced a book
that drew from men so loud a burst of honest praise, as cheered the balance of
his days. A thousand brave, undaunted chaps, borne down by grievous handicaps,
were struggling up life's rugged steep, too full of hopeful plans to weep. How
pitiful the man who stands, with active lungs and idle hands, complaining of the
luck he's had, since he was but a knee-high lad!
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