Watch Your Can'ts and watch your cans.

If you would have some worthwhile plans
You've got to watch your can'ts and your cans;
You can't aim low and then rise high;
You can't succeed if you don't try;
You can't go wrong and come out right;
You can't love sin and walk in light;
You can't throw time and means away
And live sublime every day.

You can be great if you'll be good
And do God's will as all men should;
You can ascend life's upward road,
Although you bear a heavy load;
You can be honest, truthful, clean
By turning from the low and mean;
You can uplift the souls of men
By words or deeds, or by your pen.

So watch your can'ts and watch your cans,
And watch your walks and watch your stands,
And watch the way you talk and act,
And do not take the false for fact;
And watch indeed the way you take,
And watch the things that mar or make;
For life is great to every man
Who lives to do the best he can.