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George Willis Cooke, comp. The Poets of Transcendentalism: An Anthology. 1903.

The Victory

Sidney Henry Morse (1833–1903)

TO do the tasks of life, and be not lost;

To mingle, yet dwell apart;

To be by roughest seas how rudely tossed,

Yet bate no jot of heart;

To hold thy course among the heavenly stars,

Yet dwell upon the earth;

To stand behind Fate’s firm-laid prison bars,

Yet win all Freedom’s worth!