"Speak, Victory! Who are Life's heroes?
Unroll thy long annals, and say,—
Are they those whom the world called the
victors,
Who won the success of a day?
"The martyrs, or Nero? The Spartans
Who fell at Thermopylæ's tryst,
Or the Persians and Xerxes?
His judges, or Socrates? Pilate, or
Christ?"
