- Success is counted sweetest
- By those who ne'er succeed.
- To comprehend a nectar
- Requires sorest need.
- Not one of all the purple Host
- Who took the Flag today
- Can tell the definition
- So clear of Victory
- As he defeated--dying--
- On whose forbidden ear
- The distant strains of triumph
- Burst agonized and clear!
- Emily Dickinson (1864)
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