Say not the struggle nought availeth, the labour and the wounds are vain
The enemy faints not, nor faileth, and as things have been, they remain
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars
It may be, in yon smoke concealed, your comrades chase even now the fliers
And, but for you, possess the field
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, seem here no painful inch to gain
Far back through creeks and inlets making, come silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only when daylight comes, comes in the light
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly
But westward, look, the land is bright.