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Courage Is but a word, and yet, of words,
The only sentinel of permanence;
The ruddy watch-fire of cold winter days,
We steal its comfort, lift our weary swords,
And on.  For faith ­without it ­has no sense;
And love to wind of doubt and tremor sways;
And life for ever quaking marsh must tread.

Laws give it not; before it prayer will blush;
Hope has it not; nor pride of being true;
’Tis the mysterious soul which never yields,
But hales us on and on to breast the rush
Of all the fortunes we shall happen through. 
And when Death calls across his shadowy fields ­
Dying, it answers:  “Here!  I am not dead!”

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