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Victory in Defeat

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Victory in Defeat

Defeat may serve as well as victory
To shake the soul and let the glory out.
When the great oak is straining in the wind,
The boughs drink in new beauty, and the trunk
Sends down a deeper root on the windward side.
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief
Can know the might rapture. Sorrow comes
To stretch out spaces I the heart of joy.

Edwin Markham

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