One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.)

A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.)

Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.

Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.

From what far, heavenly height of hope
Didst thou descend to light our way,
Cleaving with flash read more

From what far, heavenly height of hope
Didst thou descend to light our way,
Cleaving with flash of snowy robe
Time's dusky veil of twilight gray?

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind

Who thought he'd won
The field as certain as a gun.

Who thought he'd won
The field as certain as a gun.

But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.

But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.

Not might
but light
lit Maccabees'
lamp
through the night.

Not might
but light
lit Maccabees'
lamp
through the night.