Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STRUGGLE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN


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First Line: The role of ease is not the salient quest
Last Line: Who would know life, attends a rugged school.
Subject(s): Life; Mankind; Problems; Human Race


The role of ease is not the salient quest
Of man, his final purpose and desire.
The crown is won in struggle. All require
Abundant strength of soul to stand the test
Of lightning shock and gruelling strain; to wrest
A victory from kindled funeral pyre,
A joy from grief, a coal from altar fire.
Success is child of conflict—manifest.

Existence in a golden cage presents
No proud ideal. Eternal rest, we know,
Is but the fancied blessing of a fool.
Deep furrows plowed by pain belie pretence—
Grim witnesses of many a smothered throe.
Who would know Life, attends a rugged school.





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