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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118116" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Higher Courage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come back again, my olden heart!<br>Ah, fickle spirit and untrue,<br>I bade the only guide depart<br>Whose faithfulness I surely knew:<br>I said, my heart is all too soft;<br>He who would climb and soar aloft<br>Must needs keep ever at his side<br>The tonic of a wholesome pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come back again, my olden heart!<br>Alas, I called not then for thee;<br>I called for Courage, and apart<br>From Pride if Courage could not be,<br>Then welcome, Pride! and I shall find<br>In thee a power to lift the mind<br>This low and grovelling joy above<br>’Tis but the proud can truly love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come back again, my olden heart!<br>With incrustations of the years<br>Uncased as yet, as then thou wert,<br>Full-filled with shame and coward fears<br>Wherewith amidst a jostling throng<br>Of deeds, that each and all were wrong,<br>The doubting soul, from day to day,<br>Uneasy paralytic lay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come back again, my olden heart!<br>I said, Perceptions contradict,<br>Convictions come, anon depart,<br>And but themselves as false convict.<br>Assumptions, hasty, crude and vain,<br>Full oft to use will Science deign;<br>The corks the novice plies to-day<br>The swimmer soon shall cast away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come back again, my olden heart!<br>I said, Behold, I perish quite,<br>Unless to give me strength to start,<br>I make myself my rule of right<br>It must be, if I act at all,<br>To save my shame I have at call<br>The plea of all men understood,<br>Because I willed it, it is good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come back again, my olden heart!<br>I know not if in very deed<br>This means alone could aid impart<br>To serve my sickly spirit’s need;<br>But clear alike of wild self-will,<br>And fear that faltered, paltered still,<br>Remorseful thoughts of after days<br>A way espy betwixt the ways.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come back again, old heart! Ah me!<br>Methinks in those thy coward fears<br>There might, perchance, a courage be,<br>That fails in these the manlier years;<br>Courage to let the courage sink,<br>Itself a coward base to think,<br>Rather than not for heavenly light<br>Wait on to show the truly right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q>
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