Emily DickinsonSUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST
Poetry By Emily Dickinson - A Spiritual And Inspirational Poem from All-Creatures.org

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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 today
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.

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