Warrior Happy the of Creed HO is the Happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? —It is the generous Spirit, who when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought; Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; —'Tis he whose law is reason; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends; He labors good on good to fix, and owes To virtue —Who, every if he triumph Rises by open means; On ‘ ; § honorable that he knows: rise to station terms, of command and there will stand or else retire, And in himself possess his own Who comprehends desire; his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim; And therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait; And, through, In calmness the heat made, and Or if an unexpected of conflict, keeps the sees what he foresaw; law call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need; —He who, though thus ended as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness And while the mortal mist betray: is gathering, His breath in confidence of Heaven’s _ This is the Happy Warrior; this is he That every man in arms should —WILLIAM draws applause: wish to be. WorpsworTH. Page Thirty-one