Book xi

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Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,--miserable train!-- Turns his necessity to glorious gain.

_Character of the Happy Warrior._

Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

_Character of the Happy Warrior._

But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.

_Character of the Happy Warrior._

And through the heat of conflict keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw.

_Character of the Happy Warrior._

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

_Character of the Happy Warrior._

Like,--but oh how different!

_Yes, it was the Mountain Echo._

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

_Miscellaneous Sonnets.