The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-12-06
Favorite Poem Of Woodrow Wilson
CHARACTER OF TIE HAPPY WARRIOR.
Rv William Wordsworth.

CHARACTER OF TIE HAPPY WARRIOR
BY William Wordsworth
Who is the happy Warriori Who is he
That every in should wish bet
1t is the generous spirit who, when brought
Among the tasks of real life hath wrought
Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought
Whose high endeavors inward light
That makes the path before him always bright;
Who with a natural instinct to discern
What knowledge perform is diigent to learn,
Abides by this resolve and stops not there
But makes his moral being his prime care;
Who, doomed go in company with Pain,
And Fear and Bloodshed miserable train!
Turns necessity glorious gain;
In face of these doth exercise power
Which is human natures highest dover;
Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves
OF their bad influence and their good receives:
By objects which might forco-the soul tc abate
Her feeling rendered more compassionate;
Is pacable because occasions rise
often that demand such sacrifice;
skilful in sefknowedge, pure
AS tempted More, more able to endure,
AS exposed to suffering and DISTRESS
Thence also more alive to tenderness
-" IT'S he whose law is reason; who depends
Upon that law the best of friends;
Whence in a state where tempted still
To evil for guard against worse i'll,
And what in quality act is best
seldom a right foundation rest,
He labors good good to fix, and
To virtue every triumph that he knows;
Who if he rise to station of command,
Rises by open means; there will stand
On honorable terms or else retire, =.
And in himself possess his desire; III.
Who comprehends his trust and to the
Keeps faithful with sngeness of aim; ~
And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait
For wealth, or honors, for worldly state;
Whom they must follow, whose head must fall,
Like showers of mama, if they at all; la.
Whose powers shed round him in the common strife,
Or mild of ordinary life
constant influence, peculiar grace; sstGif.,9'
But who, if he be called upon to face
awful which Heaven has joined
Great issues, good bad for human kind,
Is happy lover; and attired
With sudden brightness, like Man inspired;
And through the heat of conflict, keeps the law
In calmness made, and what he foresaw;
OF if unexpected call succeed ,
Come when it will is equal to the need II
He who though thus endued with
And faculty for storm and turbulence,
Is yet Soul whose master bias leans i5 fi
To home-felt pleasures and to gentle scenes; i,GL
Sweet images! which, wheresoe 'er he be,
As at his heart; and such fidelity
1t is his darling passion approves ''r7N
More brave for this, that he hath much to love:-
IT'S finally, the Man, who lifted high, t.l
Conspicuous object in nations eye, f
Or left unthought of in obscurty,- ;"
Who, with toward untoward lot,
Prosperous adverse to his wish not ~
Plays, in the many games of life, that
Where what he most doth value must be won;
Whom neither shape of danger dismay, <E
Nor thought of tender happiness betray;
Who, not content that former worth stand FAST
Looks forward, perseverng to the last,
From well to better, daily self surpast; sIH-
Who whether praise of him must walk the earth ~ Z
Forever, and to noble deeds give birth, ~ '''
Or he must fall, to sleep without his fame, &''
= And leave a dead, improbable name,
Finds comfort in himself and in his cause;
And while the mortal mist is gathering, draws
His breath in confidence of Heavens applause y
This is the happy Warrior this is he r.
That every Man in should wish to be.