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Show THE GREATER VICTORY. &fl There was a way, a joy, a mystic, unnamed thing PB A dreamer sought H As vague as air that's troubled by some'swallow's PJ wing BB Ideal, intangible, and shadow-fraught. P Impossible, it seemed, so much it held desired, H So much implied, H So near, yet so remote; uncertainty conspired H To make it seem by distance deified. i PJ Bb One day the prize was gained; he struggled . H through despair, H Through ways defiled, H To grasp a poisoned cup; the watching world fl stood there, , B And so he pressed it to his lips and smiled. I ,i fl Mabel Porter Pitts, in Town Talk. ' B BBb |