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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
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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.
But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
In war there is no substitute for victory.
One by one
in many countries
they break through
the ice of fear..
cups of crocuses
.. stand up in read more
One by one
in many countries
they break through
the ice of fear..
cups of crocuses
.. stand up in caucuses
.. East to West
from Africa to the Caucusus
and state
their eternal
allegiance
to the Creator Sun.
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased
Cato.
[Lat., Victrix cause Diis placuit, sed victa read more
The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased
Cato.
[Lat., Victrix cause Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni.]
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
