English poem
Defeat?
by Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893)
Who is it speaks of defeat?— I tell you a Cause like ours Is greater than defeat can know; It is the power of powers! As surely as the earth rolls round, As surely as the glorious sun Brings the great world sea-wave, Must our Cause be won! What is defeat to us?— Learn what a skirmish tells, While the great Army marches on To storm earth's hells!