Speak, History! Who are Life’s victors? Unroll thy long annals and say;
Are they those whom the world called the victors, who won the success of a day?
The Martyrs or Nero? The Spartans who fell at Thermopylae’s tryst,
Or the Persians and Xerxes? His judge or Socrates? Pilate or Christ?
—W. W. Story.
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