The Good Sportsman's Prayer 



(Reprinted from Outing, May, 1913.) 



Make me strong to endure and patient under failure. 

 Give me steadiness of eye and hand and sureness of 

 foot Endow me with the eye to see and the soul to 

 appreciate the colors of the sunset, the strong lift of 

 the racing wave, the growing green of the tree-tops, and 

 all the sights and sound that make the outdoors potent 

 to heal and to inspire. Give me hope in the morning 

 and content at the end of the day. Above all, make me 

 a good sport, prepared for good and bad luck alike, as 

 ready to spare as to kill, rejoicing most of all in the 

 wild life that crosses my path and goes scathless on its 

 way. 



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