Victorian encouraging poem "If one proves weak…" Card

If one proves weak whom you fancied strong Or false whom you fancied true, Just ease the smart of your wounded heart By the thought that it is not you. If many forget a promise made, And your faith falls into the dust Then look meanwhile in the mirror and smile And say 'I am the one to trust.' If you search in vain for an aging face Unharmed by fretful fears, Then make right now, and keep a vow To grow in grace with the years. If you lose your faith in the word of man As you go from the port of youth, Just say as you sail 'I will not fail To keep to the course of truth.' For this is the way, and the only way— At least it seems so to me. It is up to you, to be and to do, What you look for in others— See? —Ella Wheeler Wilcox