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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539955" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Character of the Happy Warrior</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">. Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he<br> That every man in arms should wish to be?<br> --It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought<br> Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought<br> Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought:<br> Whose high endeavours are an inward light<br> That makes the path before him always bright;<br> Who, with a natural instinct to discern<br> What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn;<br> Abides by this resolve, and stops not there,<br> But makes his moral being his prime care;<br> Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,<br> And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!<br> Turns his necessity to glorious gain;<br> In face of these doth exercise a power<br> Which is our human nature's highest dower:<br> Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves<br> Of their bad influence, and their good receives:<br> By objects, which might force the soul to abate<br> Her feeling, rendered more compassionate;<br> Is placable--because occasions rise<br> So often that demand such sacrifice;<br> More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure,<br> As tempted more; more able to endure,<br> As more exposed to suffering and distress;<br> Thence, also, more alive to tenderness.<br> --'Tis he whose law is reason; who depends<br> Upon that law as on the best of friends;<br> Whence, in a state where men are tempted still<br> To evil for a guard against worse ill,<br> And what in quality or act is best<br> Doth seldom on a right foundation rest,<br> He labours good on good to fix, and owes<br> To virtue every triumph that he knows:<br> --Who, if he rise to station of command,<br> Rises by open means; and there will stand<br> On honourable terms, or else retire,<br> And in himself possess his own desire;<br> Who comprehends his trust, and to the same<br> Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim;<br> And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait<br> For wealth, or honours, or for worldly state;<br> Whom they must follow; on whose head must fall,<br> Like showers of manna, if they come at all:<br> Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,<br> Or mild concerns of ordinary life,<br> A constant influence, a peculiar grace;<br> But who, if he be called upon to face<br> Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined<br> Great issues, good or bad for human kind,<br> Is happy as a Lover; and attired<br> With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired;<br> And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law<br> In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw;<br> Or if an unexpected call succeed,<br> Come when it will, is equal to the need:<br> --He who, though thus endued as with a sense<br> And faculty for storm and turbulence,<br> Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans<br> To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes;<br> Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be,<br> Are at his heart; and such fidelity<br> It is his darling passion to approve;<br> More brave for this, that he hath much to love:--<br> 'Tis, finally, the Man, who, lifted high,<br> Conspicuous object in a Nation's eye,<br> Or left unthought-of in obscurity,--<br> Who, with a toward or untoward lot,<br> Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not--<br> Plays, in the many games of life, that one<br> Where what he most doth value must be won:<br> Whom neither shape or danger can dismay,<br> Nor thought of tender happiness betray;<br> Who, not content that former worth stand fast,<br> Looks forward, persevering to the last,<br> From well to better, daily self-surpast:<br> Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth<br> For ever, and to noble deeds give birth,<br> Or he must fall, to sleep without his fame,<br> And leave a dead unprofitable name--<br> Finds comfort in himself and in his cause;<br> And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws<br> His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause:<br> This is the happy Warrior; this is he<br> That every man in arms should wish to be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a><div class=q>
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