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" 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 e'en now... "
The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918 - Page 2823
1918 - 4009 pages
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Modern Poets of Faith, Doubt, & Paganism: And Other Essays

Arthur Temple Lyttelton, Edward Stuart Talbot (bp. of Rochester) - English literature - 1904 - 370 pages
...already, and the despondent fighter is rebuked : Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. Nothing can be finer than the two images by which he expresses the character of the struggle ; the...
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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

United States - 1989 - 862 pages
...lines often quoted by Winston Churchill in the darkest days of World War II seem especially apt today: For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. Letter to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate Transmitting the Report on the ExportImport...
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The Grand Alliance

Winston Churchill - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 852 pages
...wherever the English language is spoken or the flag of freedom flies. * My subsequent italic]. — AUTHOR. For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright." From a letter from Arthur Hugh dough to William Allinpham, dated October 13, 1849. and presented to...
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The Churchill War Papers, Volume 3

Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert - World War, 1939-1945 - 1993 - 1898 pages
...believe they will be so judged wherever the English language is spoken or the flag of freedom flies: For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright.1 General Sir Alan Brooke: diary ('Turn of the Tide') 2 7 April 1941 Chequers PM was broadcasting...
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New Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book

Ginny Vida - Social Science - 2010 - 326 pages
...nineteenth-century poem by Arthur Hugh Clough called "Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth." The final stanzas read: For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. Although it would be easy enough for lesbian women to say that patience with Protestant churches is...
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Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, And The Second World War

Warren F. Kimball - History - 1998 - 440 pages
...to express his own deep hopes for a true alliance with the United States, as he did in April 1941: For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright! Roosevelt's easy affability provided effective cover for his honest feelings, but he too could resort...
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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

James Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg, Lord William Rees-Mogg - Business & Economics - 1999 - 454 pages
...hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e 'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field....how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. This active competition still appeals to the modern sensibility. Indeed, it is how many modern men...
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Assurance: An Anthology

Michael Seed - Religion - 2000 - 194 pages
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright! Cherie Booth 1O DOWNING STREET LONDON SW1A2AA From the Office of Cherie Booth QC 14 April 2000 You...
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The Gospel of Luke

William Barclay - Bible - 2001 - 388 pages
...have been they remain. If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be, in yon smoke conceal' d, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but...how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright! Be of good cheer - the kingdom is on the way - and we do well to thank God for every sign of its dawning....
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Arthur Hugh Clough: Selected Poems

Arthur Hugh Clough - 2003 - 244 pages
...being here? 'Say not, the struggle nought availeth' Say not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. Peschiera What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? ' 'Tis better to have...
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