{"id":647,"date":"2014-05-26T15:19:46","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T19:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/?p=647"},"modified":"2014-05-29T13:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T17:51:38","slug":"baccalaureate-reading-by-persis-ticknor-swanson-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/2014\/05\/26\/baccalaureate-reading-by-persis-ticknor-swanson-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Baccalaureate Reading by Persis Ticknor-Swanson ’14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It Couldn\u2019t Be Done<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

By Edgar Albert Guest <\/a>(Read by Persis Ticknor-Swanson ’14)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Somebody said that it couldn\u2019t be done<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But he with a chuckle replied<\/div>\n
That \u201cmaybe it couldn\u2019t,\u201d but he would be one<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Who wouldn\u2019t say so till he\u2019d tried.<\/div>\n
So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On his face. If he worried he hid it.<\/div>\n
He started to sing as he tackled the thing<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That couldn\u2019t be done, and he did it!<\/div>\n
Somebody scoffed: \u201cOh, you\u2019ll never do that;<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0At least no one ever has done it;\u201d<\/div>\n
But he took off his coat and he took off his hat<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And the first thing we knew he\u2019d begun it.<\/div>\n
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Without any doubting or quiddit,<\/div>\n
He started to sing as he tackled the thing<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That couldn\u2019t be done, and he did it.<\/div>\n
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There are thousands to prophesy failure,<\/div>\n
There are thousands to point out to you one by one,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The dangers that wait to assail you.<\/div>\n
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin,<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Just take off your coat and go to it;<\/div>\n
Just start in to sing as you tackle the thing<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That \u201ccannot be done,\u201d and you\u2019ll do it.<\/div>\n
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It Couldn\u2019t Be Done By Edgar Albert Guest (Read by Persis Ticknor-Swanson ’14)\u00a0 Somebody said that it couldn\u2019t be done \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But he with a chuckle replied That \u201cmaybe it couldn\u2019t,\u201d but he would be one \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Who wouldn\u2019t say so till he\u2019d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On his … Continue reading Baccalaureate Reading by Persis Ticknor-Swanson ’14<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[203,16],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baccalaureate-service","category-student-speaker","tag-baccalaureate"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/speeches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}