LITTLE FOES OF LITTLE BOYS.
Reading edition
"By-and-by" is a very bad boy: Shun him at once and forever; For they who travel with "By-and-by" Soon come to the house of "Never." "I Can't" is a mean little coward: A boy that is half of a man Set on him a plucky wee terrier That the world knows and honors—"I Can." "No Use in Trying"—nonsense, I say: Keep trying until you succeed; But if you should meet "I Forgot" by the way, He's a cheat, and you'd better take heed. "Don't Care" and "No Matter," boys, they're a pair, And whenever you see the poor dolts, Say, "Yes, we do care," and would be "Great matter," If our lives should be spoiled by small faults.