Many
are God's forms by which he grows in man;
They
stamp his thoughts and deeds with divinity,
Uplift
the stature of the human clay
Or
slowly transmute it into heaven's gold.
He is
the good for which men fight and die,
He is
the War of Right with Titan Wrong,
He is
Freedom rising deathless from hr pyre,
He is
Valour guarding still the desperate pass
Or
lone and erect on the shattered barricade
Or a
sentinel in the dangerous echoing Night.
He is
the crown of the martyr burned in flame
And
the glad resignation of the saint
And courage indifferent to the wounds of Time.
(Book
seven, Canto four)
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