Poem: Success

Updated May 6, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Success

 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!