...poem is so little known that we may be pardoned for quoting it in full. Say not the struggle nought availeth, The labor and the wounds are vain, The enemy...slowly ; But westward, look ! the land is bright. It is a sentiment very similar to this that Longfellow has given expression to in his last poem, "...

...smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for yon, possess the field. " Jor while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...how slowly, But westward look, the land Is bright.'' There is no weakness in his longer poems. The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, which was the first of these...

...than this gaudy melon-flower ! R. Browning. CLXXV. AY not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. AH dough. CLXXVL THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. E more Unfortunate, Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone...

...yon smoke concealed, Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, And, but for you, possess the field. 1 For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. AH CLOUGH. SYMBOLS OF VICTORY. YELLOW leaves on the ash-tree, Soft glory in the air, And the streaming...

...intellectual dawn slowly breaking on the spiritual world : ' Say not the struggle naught availeth. The labour and the wounds are vain. The enemy faints not, nor...how slowly. But westward, look, the land is bright.' One thing as regards his belief is certain, and that is that, if he can be said to have belonged to...

...all.' 1849 SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH. SAY not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. 1849 VOL. II. KK INDEX . OF THE FIRST LINES. PAGE A Highland inn among the western hills 427 A youth...

...the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars; It may be,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. 1849 INDEX OF THE FIRST LINES. PAGE A Highland inn among the western hills 437 A youth and maid upon...

...STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH. SAY not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; It may be,...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. 1849 INDEX OF THE FIRST LINES. PAGE ,_ A Highland inn among the western hills 427 f- A youth and maid...

...from anguish springs.' CHARLES TURNER. NOT IN VAIN. AY not the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor...how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright. ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH. THE PATIENCE OF HOPE. "DLASPHEME not thou thy sacred life, nor turn O'er joys that...

...Poems. 345 SAY NOT THE STRUGGLE NOUGHT AVAILETH. SAY not, the struggle nought availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor...how slowly. But westward, look, the land is bright. INDEX THE FIRST LINES. A Highland inn among the western hills 314 A youth and maid upon a summer night...