Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THE VICTOR, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD


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TO THE VICTOR, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Man's mind is larger than his brow of tears
Last Line: And sun and moon and all that made me strong.
Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty


Man's mind is larger than his brow of tears:
This hour is not my all of Time; this place
My all of Earth; nor this obscene disgrace
My all of Life; and thy complacent sneers
Shall not pronounce my doom to my compeers
Whilst the Hereafter lights me in the face,
And from the Past, as from the mountain's base,
Rise, as I rise, the long tumultuous cheers.

And who slays me must overcome a world:
Heroes at arms, and virgins who became
Mothers of children, prophecy and song;
Walls of old cities with their flags unfurled;
Peaks, headlands, ocean and its isles of fame --
And sun and moon and all that made me strong.





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