 | Lyrics: By Martin F. Tupper |  |
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Courage.
(IN SAPPHIC STANZAS.)
Never went man courageously to dangers,
Fear and his constant spirit being strangers,
But, while he faced his enemies and hew'd them,
Soon he subdued them:
Fear and his constant spirit being strangers,
But, while he faced his enemies and hew'd them,
Soon he subdued them:
As he goes onward, perils seem to scatter,
Mind ever shows the conqueror of matter;
Even the mountain crags that toppled o'er him
Open before him;
Mind ever shows the conqueror of matter;
Even the mountain crags that toppled o'er him
Open before him;
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Even the torrents, riotously wrathful,
Are to his footsteps fordable and pathful;
Even the prowlers, in the desert roaming,
Fly at his coming.
Are to his footsteps fordable and pathful;
Even the prowlers, in the desert roaming,
Fly at his coming.
O man of faith, of energy, and boldness,—
Onward! in spite of darkness and of coldness,—
Forward! for Conquest with triumphal pleasance
Waits for thy presence:
Onward! in spite of darkness and of coldness,—
Forward! for Conquest with triumphal pleasance
Waits for thy presence:
Never, on Right and Providence relying,
Fail'd of Success, while duteously trying,
He, who resolves and wrestles like a Roman,
Yielding to no man!
Fail'd of Success, while duteously trying,
He, who resolves and wrestles like a Roman,
Yielding to no man!
| Lyrics: By Martin F. Tupper | |