Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE VOICE OF TRIUMPH, by NELLIE BALDWIN RUDSER


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THE VOICE OF TRIUMPH, by                    
First Line: What matter if the way be walked with anguish
Last Line: Some learn that pain and waiting may be best.
Subject(s): Perseverance


What matter if the way be walked with anguish;
What matter that the ease be lost for long:
The vision must be greater than the dreamer,
The singer must be shadowed by the song!
Then seek to teach each child... prosaic raisins
Hung on bronzed vines as violet-velvet grapes;
And that the twilight veil that hides the sunset
Is but the folds of immemorial drapes;
That dawn will always come, here or eternal,
As surely as the star flames in the west,
Because a cross became the triumph-symbol!
Some learn that pain and waiting may be best.





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