Be confident, ye dreamers for the right.
The right shall triumph ere the strife is done;
For is no human conflict settled quite
Till in its holy name the day is won.
In all man's story read this lesson plain.
Its teaching for your staunch upholding meant;
Evil shall not the final mastery gain—
Of this be confident!
Be confident; though weak and sorely tried,
There is no power that shall your cause defeat;
You and the right against the world allied
Stand in the victor's panoply complete.
It is God's will. Through you it finds its way.
That may not from its certain goal be bent,
Reaching, through baffled nights.' triumphant day—
Of this be confident!
The direct foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.—
