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Glory of
warrior, glory of orator, glory of song,
Paid with a
voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea -
Glory
of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong -
Nay, but she aimed not at glory, no lover of glory she:
Give her the glory of going on, and still to be.
The wages of sin is death: if the wages of Virtue be
dust,
Would she have heart to endure for the life of
the worm and the fly?
She desires no isles of the
blest, no quiet seats of the just,
To rest in a
golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky:
Give her
the wages of going on, and not to die.
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