"Victi Resurgunt"

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"VICTI RESURGUNT"
by Florence Earle Coates
Also published in Harper's Bazar, 7 June 1890; Vol. XXIII No. 23; p. 442.


←Didst Thou Rejoice? Man→
from Poems (1898)


Heroes with eloquent flags unfurled
   Have trumpeted loudly their just elation,
But the voice that hath sunk to the heart of the
       world
   Is the voice of renunciation.

It nothing vaunts, nor with idle sound
   Perplexes the currents of human feeling,
But speaks with the accent and note profound
   Of deep unto deep appealing.

And Earth—who worships her victims slain—
   To faith's redeeming doth first awaken,
Recalling who, giving themselves in vain,
   Seemed, even in death, forsaken !
←Mediæval Achilles→
from Poems Vol. II (1916)


There are no textual differences between publications.


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