THOSE WHO HAVE FAILED.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2140, 27 March 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

THOSE WHO HAVE FAILED.

[Written on last looking iato Smile*'* "Self-help.*] Much musing h*ve I read of itrenuou* . me»— i Of soldier,, painter, craf toman, thoM who wrought j And reaped success, and now in this world* ' ken Loom largely ; whom oar younger ones are taught To mould their lire* on. ' Yet the more my j thought •'■ , ; Tarns toward the losing side, that unaang band Ot broken heart* who, ever failing, fought The long, long battle,, while the iron band Aye pressed them backward from their nigh emprise < Until they perished. And the rabble rouJt, i •«, Still rushes with stretched n«ck,and stating eye*' ■ < '•.< '-i To greet the qoming man. So, let them , shoufrTFrfint gcow the echoes of their rude ap- ; plause? ' ' ' Blot out that huckstering talo of gain and lo«s. Behold the Leader of a vanquished cause, His arms extended on the bitter cross ! What of the weak things of the earth ! Of those Who found no helper, or he came too late? Of all that spectre multitude, who knows Aught of, their struggle with a malign fate? Is there no Homer for the beaten side ? Are' they beneath the wisdom of the wise? The pity of the good ? Let fools deride ; The tattered troop* of Failure high Til prize. Such the brare sailor who with all bis host Slow, month by month, leashed in by fool's commands, Rotted to death along the deadly coast, And left the victory for another's hands. And such was he who, born to guide a State, Sunk in decay and gasping in deaths throes, Fell on the threshold of the captured gate, Burst inward by the rush of Moslem foes. —Harold B. Harrison in Spectator.