Classic Poem

The sun of our existence here
Is sinking very fast,
Let us make our lives a monument
Of credit while we last.

Let us do all of the good we can,
That others may see and feel
That we made the word better
By ambition, pluck and zeal.

Let it be our hearts' desire to make history
While we live, so that others may retain
And know that we have accomplished something
And also lived to live again.

Each of us should be inventors
In this broad and busy land,
And feel it is our duty
To be improving all of the time.

Let us give the world new ideas,
And exercise our hands and brain,
As coming generations will expect of us
To learn something grand and something
Noble of our action in this age.

Now as we must fill our places
Let us fill them with delight and feel this is our gain,
You know success follows labor just as pleasure follows pain.

Let us then be up and doing
What we find, with all of our might,
In this business world improving
And leaving monuments of light.