True Conquerors
1819-1892
Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent,)
Old sailors, out of many a perilous voyage, storm and wreck,
Old soldiers from campaigns, with all their wounds, defeats and scars;
Enough that they've survived at all--long life's unflinching ones!
Forth from their struggles, trials, fights, to have emerged at all--
in that alone,
True conquerors o'er all the rest.
DayPoems Poem No. 2201
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/2201.html">True Conquerors by Walt Whitman</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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