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Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves
Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
Character of the Happy Warrior (1806)
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
Character of the Happy Warrior (1806)
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,
And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!
Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
Character of the Happy Warrior (1806)
More skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure,
As tempted more; more able to endure,
As more exposed to suffering and distress.
Character of the Happy Warrior (1806)
And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law
In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.
Character of the Happy Warrior (1806)
Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?
Character of the Happy Warrior (1806)
But who, if he be called upon to face
Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined
Great issues, good or bad for human kind,
Is happy as a Lover.
Character of the Happy Warrior (1806)