The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-02-07

Associa''oh' always bright;
Who. with a natural instinct to discern
What knowledge can perform. is diligent
to learn.
Abides by this resolve. and stops not
there.
But makes his moral being his prime care:
Who. doomed to 80 in co'nn,n with pain
And fear and bloodsied-tni*r - train
Turns his necessity TO .lo i y in:
In face OF these doth exercise II rwer
Which Is our human natures highest dow
er;
Controls them and subducs. transmutes.
bereaves
OF their bad influence and their good re.
ceives:
BY objects which might force the soul to
abate
Her feeling rendered moro compasionate:
Is capable, because occasions rise
So often that demand such sacrifice:
More skillful in self knowledge. even more
pure.
As tempted more. more able to endure.
As more exposed to suffering and distress:
Theme also more alive to tenderness.
IT'S he whose law is reason. who depends
Upon that law as on the best Of friends:
Whence in a state where men are tempt
ed still
To evil for a guard against worse i'll.
And what in quality or act Is best
Doth seldom or a right foundation rest.
He labors good on good to fix and ives
To virtue every triumph that he knows;
Who. il he rise to station of command,
Rises by open means. and there will stand
On honorable terms or else retire
And in himself possess his W desire;
Who comprehends his trust and to the
same
Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim.
And therefore does not stoop nor lie in
wait
For wealth or honors or for worldly state:
must fall
Like showers Of mama If they come at
all;
Whose powers shed round him in the COM
mon strife
Or mild concerns of ordinary life
A constant influence. a peculiar grace.
But who, IL he be called upon to face
Some awful moment to which heaven has
joined
Great issues. good or bad for human kind.
Is happy as a lover and. attired
With sudden brightness, like q man in
spired,
And through the heat OF conflict keeps the
law
In mnes made. and sees what he fore
saw,
Or if in an unexpected call succeed,
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He who. though thus endued as with .
sense
And faculty for storm and turbulence,
Is yet a soul whose master bias can
To home felt pleasures and to gentle
scenes:
Sweet images, which. wheresoe'er he be,
Are at his heart. and such fidelity
1t is his darling passion to approve,
More brave for this. that he haiti much to
love-
'Tis. finally, the man who. lifted high,
Conspicuous object in a nations eye,
Or left %unthought of in obscurity.
WHO. with a toward or untoward lot,
Prosperous or adverse. to his wish or not,
Plays in the many games Of life that one
Where what he most doth value must be
won:
Whom neither shape Of danger can dis
may
Nor thought Of tender happiness betray:
Who. not content hat former worth
stands fast.
Looks forward, persevering to the last,
From well to better daily self surpast:
Who. whether praise Of him must walk
the earth
Forever md to noble deeds give birth,
Or he must fall, to sleep without his fame.
And leave a dead, unprotitabl name.
Finds comfort in himself and In his cause,
And while the mortal mist is gathering
draws
His breath in confidence of hea ven's ap
plause-
This is the happy warrior. this is he
That every man in arms should wish to be
William Wadsworth.