This is a great poem about living boldly for truth. The call to rely \u201con only your soul\u201d in the second stanza misses it, but replace \u201csoul\u201d there with \u201cGod\u201d and this is it! So many compelling images pressed into service for calling us to stand for what is right regardless of public opinion or loss- wow. May it be true of me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt Is Glory Enough\u201d<\/p>\n
IT is glory enough to have shouted the name
\nOf the living God in the teeth of an army of foes;
\nTo have thrown all prudence and fore thought away
\nAnd for once to have followed the call of the soul
\nOut into the danger of darkness, of ruin and death.
\nTo have counselled with right, not success, for once,
\nIs glory enough for one day.<\/p>\n
It is glory enough for one day
\nTo have marched out alone before the seats of the scornful,
\nTheir fingers all pointing your way;
\nTo have felt and wholly forgotten the branding-iron of their eyes ;
\nTo have stood up proud and reliant on only your soul
\nAnd go calmly on with your duty \u2014
\nIt is glory enough.<\/p>\n
It is glory enough to have taken the perilous risk;
\nInstead of investing in stocks and paid-up insurance for one,
\nTo have fitted a cruiser for right to adventure a sea full of shoals;
\nTo sail without chart and with only the stars for a guide;
\nTo have dared to lose with all the chances for losing
\nIs glory enough.<\/p>\n
It is glory enough for one day
\nTo have dreamed the bright dream of the reign of right;
\nTo have fastened your faith like a flag to that immaterial staff
\nAnd have marched away, forgetting your base of supplies.
\nAnd while the worldly wise see nothing but shame and ignoble retreat,
\nAnd though far ahead the heart may faint and the flesh prove weak \u2014
\nTo have dreamed that bold dream is glory enough,
\nIs glory enough for one day.<\/p>\n
– William Herbert Carruth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is a great poem about living boldly for truth. The call to rely \u201con only your soul\u201d in the second stanza misses it, but replace \u201csoul\u201d there with \u201cGod\u201d and this is it! So many compelling images pressed into service for calling us to stand for what is right regardless of public opinion or …<\/p>\n