Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WE HOPE TO WIN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON


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First Line: We hope to win?' by god's help - 'yes'
Last Line: We hope to win.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin
Subject(s): World War I; First World War


'WE hope to win?' By God's help -- 'Yes':
Though of the 'when,' no man can guess,
Since there may yet be long-drawn strain,
Alternate change of pride and pain,
Till Victory come -- at last -- to bless.

But there are other wars that press --
Wars bred of surfeit and success --
Which, if we would our place maintain,
We hope to win.

There is the war with Selfishness --
The purblind fiend that 'doubts' distress;
With hearts that fail and lips that feign;
With Drink, with Lust, with Greed of Gain...
These are the wars in which, not less,
We hope to win.





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