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Triumph.

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Triumph may be of several kinds.     There 's triumph in the room     When that old imperator, Death,     By faith is overcome.     There 's triumph of the finer mind     When truth, affronted long,     Advances calm to her supreme,     Her God her only throng.     A triumph when temptation's bribe     Is slowly handed back,     One eye upon the heaven renounced     And one upon the rack.     Severer triumph, by himself     Experienced, who can pass     Acquitted from that naked bar,     Jehovah's countenance!

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