"If you think you are beaten, you are; if you think you dare not, you don't If you'd like to win, but you think you can't, i't's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost, for out in the world you'll find Success begins with a fellow's will It's all in the state of mind.
"Full many a race is lost ere even a race is run, And many a coward fails ere even his work's begun. Think big, and your deeds will grow, Think small and you fall behind, Think that you can, and you will, I's all in the state of mind.
"If you think you are outclassed, you are; you've got to think high to rise, You've got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win a prize. Life's battle doestn't always go to the stronger of faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins Is the fellow who thinks he can "
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Funeral Blues
Zet alle klokken stil, zet het gerinkel af!
Deel vette kluiven uit, zodat geen hond meer blaft;
Sluit de piano, sla de trom en draag
De kist naar buiten, mensen treur vandaag.
Schrijf in het hemelblauw een tekst, heel groot
Met witte vliegtuigletters: hij is dood;
Doe alle duiven van de stad een rouwband om hun nek,
En laat verkeersagenten surveilleren in jaquet.
Hij was mijn noord, mijn zuid, mijn west, mijn oost,
Mijn werken door de week, mijn s zondagstroost;
Mijn overdag, mijn nacht, mijn woord, mijn lied
Liefde voor eeuwig, dacht ik maar zo was het niet.
