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Who is the happy Warrior Who is he	A
That every man in arms should wish to be	A
It is the generous Spirit who when brought	B
Among the tasks of real life hath wrought	B
Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought	B
Whose high endeavours are an inward light	C
That makes the path before him always bright	C
Who with a natural instinct to discern	D
What knowledge can perform is diligent to learn	D
Abides by this resolve and stops not there	E
But makes his moral being his prime care	E
Who doomed to go in company with Pain	F
And Fear and Bloodshed miserable train	F
Turns his necessity to glorious gain	F
In face of these doth exercise a power	G
Which is our human nature's highest dower	H
Controls them and subdues transmutes bereaves	I
Of their bad influence and their good receives	I
By objects which might force the soul to abate	J
Her feeling rendered more compassionate	K
Is placable because occasions rise	I
So often that demand such sacrifice	I
More skilful in self knowledge even more pure	L
As tempted more more able to endure	L
As more exposed to suffering and distress	I
Thence also more alive to tenderness	I
'Tis he whose law is reason who depends	I
Upon that law as on the best of friends	I
Whence in a state where men are tempted still	M
To evil for a guard against worse ill	M
And what in quality or act is best	N
Doth seldom on a right foundation rest	N
He labours good on good to fix and owes	I
To virtue every triumph that he knows	I
Who if he rise to station of command	O
Rises by open means and there will stand	O
On honourable terms or else retire	P
And in himself possess his own desire	G
Who comprehends his trust and to the same	Q
Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim	Q
And therefore does not stoop nor lie in wait	J
For wealth or honours or for worldly state	J
Whom they must follow on whose head must fall	R
Like showers of manna if they come at all	R
Whose powers shed round him in the common strife	S
Or mild concerns of ordinary life	S
A constant influence a peculiar grace	I
But who if he be called upon to face	I
Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined	T
Great issues good or bad for human kind	U
Is happy as a Lover and attired	V
With sudden brightness like a Man inspired	W
And through the heat of conflict keeps the law	X
In calmness made and sees what he foresaw	X
Or if an unexpected call succeed	Y
Come when it will is equal to the need	Y
He who though thus endued as with a sense	I
And faculty for storm and turbulence	I
Is yet a Soul whose master bias leans	I
To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes	I
Sweet images which wheresoe'er he be	A
Are at his heart and such fidelity	A
It is his darling passion to approve	Z
More brave for this that he hath much to love	A2
'Tis finally the Man who lifted high	B2
Conspicuous object in a Nation's eye	B2
Or left unthought of in obscurity	A
Who with a toward or untoward lot	C2
Prosperous or adverse to his wish or not	C2
Plays in the many games of life that one	D2
Where what he most doth value must be won	D2
Whom neither shape or danger can dismay	E2
Nor thought of tender happiness betray	E2
Who not content that former worth stand fast	F2
Looks forward persevering to the last	F2
From well to better daily self surpast	F2
Who whether praise of him must walk the earth	G2
For ever and to noble deeds give birth	G2
Or he must fall to sleep without his fame	Q
And leave a dead unprofitable name	Q
Finds comfort in himself and in his cause	I
And while the mortal mist is gathering draws	I
His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause	I
This is the happy Warrior this is he	A
That every man in arms should wish to be	A

William Wordsworth

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