The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-12-19
"GAME OF LIFR. /"

"GAME OF LIFE"
There's a game in fashion, I think its
called eJtchre, r.
ure or 1ucre, -.a -
In which when cards are IN certain con-
ditionS l-t
The players appear to have changed
their POSITIONS, -
And one Of them says, in confident tone,
i think may venture to 'goit alone. p
While watching the .game5 tits a whim
Of the baFds tftE
A moral TO draw from that skirufsh at
cards,
And to fancy he ind in that trivial strife
Some excellent hints in the battle of life,
Where, whether the prize be ribbon OF
The winner is he who can go it alone, .
When great Calico proclaimed that the
world
In a regular orbit was ceaselesziy
And got not a convert for all Of his
pains,
But only derisiOn and prison andchafns,
80. +.' ~ 81 olA' "''77 ~ ~ f'qll.7'. =
But in this opinion he f'went it. alone.H
When KeIper with intellect piercing afar
Discovered the law of each planet and
star,
The doctors, who ought to have landed
Derided his iearning and blacLened. his
fame.
81 can waitp he replied, ''tilI the truth
you shall own -
For he felt in his heart he could ''go it
alOne.''
Alas for the player who sfIly depends
In the struggle Of life upon kindred and
friends;
Whatever the value of blessings like
these,
They can never atone for inglorious ease
Nor comfort the coward who finds with
a grOan
That his {crutches have left him to ego it
alone" =.
There's something, no doubt, in the
hand you may hold
Health, family, culture, wit, beauty and
gold,
The fortunate owner may fairly regard,
AS each in its way an excellent card
Yet the game may be lost with all taese
for yOur own,
Unless you've the courage to $50 it
alone"
In battle or business, whatever the game,
Ia law or in love, it is ever the same,
Ia the struggle for power, or the scram-
bic for pelf,
Let this be your motto, ''rely on your
For whether the prize be s ribbon or
throne,
The victor is he who can F'go it alone"
ANOTHER POINT IN TIE GAME.
There's a game in fashion which kaoao
is called euchre;
It's game have played, although not
for lucre,
And if you but knew it as wei as I
know it,
You would find, o most genial and ex-
cellent poet,
It teaches lesson more useful than one,
To be CLEANED from the sentence, s.Pll
play il alone"
Self-reliance we know is an excellent
trait,
The advance guard Of science who pa
UlenUty Wait
Until time has developed the truth they
proclaim,
Deserve a high place in the record of
And often in life, as euchre, I own
You make big march when you ''play
it alone.'
But to s.go it alone, {" you no doubt un-
derstaHd,
You must hold the big knaves of the
pack in your hand
And often in life in a similar fix,
You depend on such cards to secure you
the tricks;
So that sometimes too much Of the knave
may be shown
IN a selfish desire to go 1t alone. % a--
But the game You describe as tstrivial
strife ~ l...
Has a moral to point for the "battle Of
life;'
1t is this-w1en the cards are dealt
round on the stand
And each player locks snxiOusly into
his hand,
How bravely your partner ill-luck can
resist,
IF eheered by the sound Of your voice
''fll assist
The great Calico imprisoned and bound
Ia the midst of his trials sympathy found
When angry D0minicans hurled at his
head
All the wrath upon which bigotFy's
passion is fed
A fair fern appeared through the dun
geOn's mist,
And daughters soft voice whispered
low, 'Tll assist"
What's the wealth Of this world if de-
signing and cold,
You selfishly seek all the honors to hold,
your neighbors with glanees
of stone,
And the words harshly spoken 9TH 60
it elOuer'
No, No higher up on humanity's list
Is he who can cheerfully say IN assist"
When in love- o, rash poet if she whose
bright eyes
Are gazing in yours with a tender sur
prise
Should apply to your own case the NOR
81 you've shown
And quietly tell you to ''play it alone"
With what passionate ardOr those lips
would be kissed
TIL they murmured once more the soft
words, "Ill assist"
Then shuttle the pack! cut the cards
once againt
And let a new moral awaken your
strain;
Go teach to the world that the battle Of
life
May D. lightenod to all who take part
in the strife,
If the generous lesson thus taught be
not missed
And each man 30 his neighbor viii say
'sIll assist
ANOTHER "POINTn STILL.
Another point still, the keynote to the
arch
OF success in the game, called common
~ "a marcl'