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He fails who climbs to power and place Up the pathway of disgrace. He fails not who makes truth his cause, Nor bends to win the crowd's applause. He fails not, he who stakes his all Upon the right and dares to fall. What though the living bless or blame, For him the long success of fame!
He fails who climbs to power and place Up the pathway of disgrace. He fails not who makes truth his cause, Nor bends to win the crowd's applause. He fails not, he who stakes his all Upon the right and dares to fall. What though the living bless or blame, For him the long success of fame!
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- Richard Watson Gilder
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
In print by 1911: recorded in The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 191; printed byline: Richard Watson Gilder; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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