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THE HAPPY WARRIOR

'Tis, finally, the man, who, lifted high,

Conspicuous object in a nation's eye,

Or left unthought of in obscurity,

Who, with a toward or untoward lot,

Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not,—

Plays, in the many games of life, that one

Where what he most doth value must be won;

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,