Success
Did you see that man riding past, With shoulders bowed with care? Theres failure in his eyes to last, And in his heart despair. He seldom looks to left or right, He nods, but speaks to none, And hes a man who fought the fight, God knows how hard!, and won. No great review could rouse him now, No printed lies could sting; No kindness smooth his knitted brow, Nor wrong one new line bring. Through dull, dumb days and brooding nights, From years of storm and stress, Hes riding down from lonely heights, The Mountains of Success. He sees across the darkening land The graveyards on the coasts; He sees the broken columns stand Like cold and bitter ghosts; His world is dead while yet he lives, Though known in continents; His camp is where his country gives Its pauper monuments.
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