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- Those who have marked the Brownies’ way :

THE BROWNIES IN SWITZERLAND.

Said he: “The glory we would gain

If we at last the crest attain,

Would hardly, my ambitious friends,

For lost companions make amends.”
Another said: “ Your paling face

cs Is not becoming to your race.
YS Shall we, who dared the raging sea
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Upon a raft, now thwarted be,
Because the mountain here enshrouds
Its head in dark and theatening clouds ?
My friend, where’er the human kind
Have set their feet, I am inclined
To think we, too, that spot can win,
Or else decline is setting in.
Our usefulness is surely passed
If we must turn from icy blast ;
Our courage must be ebbing low
If we ’re afraid of drifting snow;
Our enterprise is getting weak
If we can’t find a mountain peak.
If mystic power must go for naught
When we ’re in face of trials brought,
We might as well give others room
And start at once to build our tomb.”
Thus braver spirits cheered the rest
And pointed to the glittermg crest
On which, ere long, they all could stand
If courage would uphold the band.

 

And perseverance day by day
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