Success is counted sweetest

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  1. Success is counted sweetest
  2. By those who ne'er succeed.
  3. To comprehend a nectar
  4. Requires sorest need.
  5.  
  6. Not one of all the purple host
  7. Who took the flag to-day
  8. Can tell the definition,
  9. So clear, of victory,
  10.  
  11. As he, defeated, dying,
  12. On whose forbidden ear
  13. The distant strains of triumph
  14. Break, agonized and clear!

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