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Up to the strife with care, Be thine an oaken heart, Life’s daily contest nobly share, Nor act a craven part; Give murmurs to the coward throng, Be thine the joyous notes of song. If thrown upon the field, Up to the task once more, ’T is worse than infamy to yield, ’T is childish to deplore; Look stern misfortune in the eye, And breast the billow manfully. Close in with every foe, As thickly on they come, They can but lay thy body low, And send thy spirit home; Yet may’st thou stand it out and view What giant energy can do. Soon shall the combat cease, The struggle fierce and long, And thine be true, unbroken peace, And thine the victor’s song; Beyond the clouds will wait for thee. The wreath of immortality.
Up to the strife with care, Be thine an oaken heart, Life’s daily contest nobly share, Nor act a craven part; Give murmurs to the coward throng, Be thine the joyous notes of song. If thrown upon the field, Up to the task once more, ’T is worse than infamy to yield, ’T is childish to deplore; Look stern misfortune in the eye, And breast the billow manfully. Close in with every foe, As thickly on they come, They can but lay thy body low, And send thy spirit home; Yet may’st thou stand it out and view What giant energy can do. Soon shall the combat cease, The struggle fierce and long, And thine be true, unbroken peace, And thine the victor’s song; Beyond the clouds will wait for thee. The wreath of immortality.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- (Rev.) E. C. Jones (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 639 · printed citation: (Rev.) E. C. Jones · subject: VICTORY
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