Success is counted sweetest

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POEMS.

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SUCCESS.

[Published in "A Masque of Poets" at the request of
"H. H.," the author's fellow-townswoman and friend]

SUCCESS is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break, agonized and clear.