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They only the victory win,
Who have fought the good fight, and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within;
Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high;
Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight,—if need be, to die.

— William Wetmore Story Poems of William Wetmore Story (1885)

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Of every noble work the silent part is best,
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Ah, me! the vision has vanished—
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But the gray and the cold are haunted
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