Success Is Counted Sweetest, By Emily Dickinson

Success Is Counted Sweetest

By Emily Dickinson

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
Burst agonized and clear!

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