In the world’s broad field of battle
In the bivouac of life
Be not like dumb driven cattle
Be a hero in the strife
Let us then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate
Still achieving still pursuing
Learn to labor and to wait.
Not enjoyment and not sorrow
Is our destined end or way
But to act that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.
Let us then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate
Still achieving still pursuing
Learn to labor and to wait.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
Footprints that perhaps another
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother
Seeing shall take heart again
Let us then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate
Still achieving still pursuing
Learn to labor and to wait