When dealing cards in poker you are liable to find
That two pair seldom rank as high as three cards of a kind.
The King card is high card but it doesn’t beat the ace:
The first horse at the wire is the one that wins the race.
Just look the records over, and you’ll stay with me, I guess,
That really, for succeeding, there’s nothing like success;
The world will surely judge you by the things that you have done!
You will only get its pity for your battles nearly won.
Reputation isn’t always what it’s lauded up to be,
The shallow brooks are noisiest, down flowing to the sea,