It is easy to strain upward when we know Who benefit by our conduct count its cost, -- See, and feel, the incomings-to-us lost Because for them we are striving thus and so; It's easy when the eyes of watchers glow Approvingly: whenever our way's not crossed By hostile presences, nor the chilling frost Of misconception to lay our courage low. But take the battered pilgrim with his Cause For which he is toiling bent beneath abuse, @3His Cause that tomorrow will serve the common use When the man himself will be beyond all laws,@1 -- Steal from this "fool" the Dream that fires his eye -- The stricken wretch will but the sooner die! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MY HONOURED FRIEND DR. CHARLETON by JOHN DRYDEN ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE by THOMAS GRAY ECHOES: 9 by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 72, 73, 74, 75. AWWAL, AKHIR, THAHIR, BATIN by EDWIN ARNOLD AVIENUS: TO HIS FRIENDS by RUFUS FESTUS AVIENUS GYPSY-HEART by KATHARINE LEE BATES |