<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408913" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shame of Going Back</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you've come to make a fortune and you haven't made your salt,<br>And the reason of your failure isn't anybody's fault -<br>When you haven't got a billet, and the times are very slack,<br>There is nothing that can spur you like the shame of going back; <br>Crawling home with empty pockets,<br>Going back hard-up; <br>Oh! it's then you learn the meaning of humiliation's cup.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the place and you are strangers and you struggle all alone,<br>And you have a mighty longing for the town where you are known; <br>When your clothes are very shabby and the future's very black,<br>There is nothing that can hurt you like the shame of going back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When we've fought the battle bravely and are beaten to the wall,<br>'Tis the sneers of men, not conscience, that make cowards of us all; <br>And the while you are returning, oh! your brain is on the rack,<br>And your heart is in the shadow of the shame of going back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a beaten man's discovered with a bullet in his brain,<br>They POST-MORTEM him, and try him, and they say he was insane; <br>But it very often happens that he'd lately got the sack,<br>And his onward move was owing to the shame of going back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! my friend, you call it nonsense, and your upper lip is curled,<br>I can see that you have never worked your passage through the world; <br>But when fortune rounds upon you and the rain is on the track,<br>You will learn the bitter meaning of the shame of going back; <br>Going home with empty pockets,<br>Going home hard-up; <br>Oh, you'll taste the bitter poison in humiliation's cup.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408913" data-title="The Shame of Going Back de Henry Lawson" data-description="When you've come to make a fortune and you haven't made your salt, And the reason of your failure isn't anybody's fault - When you haven't got a billet, and the times are very slack, There is nothing that can spur you like the shame of going back;..."></div> </div> </div>

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