POEMS USED IN THE MEMORIAL GARDEN

'Success'

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Other Poems Used

'I Think of Those Who Were Truly Great' - Stephen Spender Spender's Collected Poems 1928 to 1953

'Lyrics' - Mary Frye (1932) and Wilbur Skeels (1996) Copyright ©Cantus Quercus Press. Used by permission.

Theodore Roosevelt - Speech in Paris 23rd April 1910

'Success' - Ralph Waldo Emerson



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