<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477679" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>For The Man Who Fails</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The world is a snob, and the man who wins<br>Is the chap for its money's worth:<br>And the lust for success causes half of the sins<br>That are cursing this brave old earth.<br>For it 's fine to go up, and the world's applause<br>Is sweet to the mortal ear;<br>But the man who fails in a noble cause<br>Is a hero that 's no less dear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T is true enough that the laurel crown<br>Twines but for the victor's brow;<br>For many a hero has lain him down<br>With naught but the cypress bough.<br>There are gallant men in the losing fight,<br>And as gallant deeds are done<br>As ever graced the captured height<br>Or the battle grandly won.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We sit at life's board with our nerves highstrung,<br>And we play for the stake of Fame,<br>And our odes are sung and our banners hung<br>For the man who wins the game.<br>But I have a song of another kind<br>Than breathes in these fame-wrought gales,--<br>An ode to the noble heart and mind<br>Of the gallant man who fails!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man who is strong to fight his fight,<br>And whose will no front can daunt,<br>If the truth be truth and the right be right,<br>Is the man that the ages want.<br>Tho' he fail and die in grim defeat,<br>Yet he has not fled the strife,<br>And the house of Earth will seem more sweet<br>For the perfume of his life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477679" data-title="For The Man Who Fails de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="The world is a snob, and the man who wins Is the chap for its money's worth: And the lust for success causes half of the sins That are cursing this brave old earth. For it 's fine to go up, and the world's applause Is sweet to the mortal ear; But ..."></div> </div> </div>

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