<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345835" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Victories Of The Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's not a stately hall,<br>There's not a cottage fair,<br>That proudly stands on Southern soil,<br>Or softly nestles there,<br>But in its peaceful walls<br>With wealth or comfort blessed,<br>A stormy battle fierce hath raged<br>In gentle woman's breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There Love, the true, the brave,<br>The beautiful, the strong,<br>Wrestles with Duty, gaunt and stern,-<br>Wrestles and struggles long.<br>He falls, no more again<br>His giant foe to meet;<br>Bleeding at every opening vein,<br>Love falls at Duty's feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Daughter of the South!<br>No victor's crown be thine,<br>Not thine upon the tented field<br>In martial pomp to shine;<br>But with unfaltering trust<br>In Him who rules on high,<br>To deck thy loved ones for the fray,<br>And send them forth to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She, the tried, the true,<br>The loving wife of years,<br>Chokes down the rising agony,<br>Drives back the starting tears;<br>'I yield thee up,' she cries,<br>'In the country's cause to fight;<br>Strike for our own, our children's home<br>And God defend the right.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Daughter of the South!<br>When our fair land is free,<br>When peace her lovely mantle throws<br>Softly o'er land and sea,<br>History shall tell how thou<br>Hast nobly borne thy part,<br>And won the proudest triumph yet -<br>The victory of the heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Americas">Anonymous Americas</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345835" data-title="Victories Of The Heart de Anonymous Americas" data-description="There's not a stately hall, There's not a cottage fair, That proudly stands on Southern soil, Or softly nestles there, But in its peaceful walls With wealth or comfort blessed, A stormy battle fierce hath raged In gentle woman's breast. There Lov..."></div> </div> </div>

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