VICTORY IN DEFEAT

                                                   Edwin Markham

          Defeat may serve as well as victory

          To shake the soul and let the glory out.

          When the great oak is straining in the wind,

          The boughs drink in new beauty, and the trunk

          Sends down a deeper root on the windward side.

          Only the soul that knows the mighty grief

          Can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come

          To stretch our spaces in the heart for joy.

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