To Those Who’ve Fail’d
To those who’ve fail’d, in aspiration vast,To unnam’d soldiers fallen in front on the lead,To calm, devoted engineers—to over-ardent travelers—to pilots ontheir ships,To many a lofty song and picture without recognition—I’d rearlaurel-cover’d monument,High, high above the rest—To all cut off before their time,Possess’d by some strange spirit of fire,Quench’d by an early death.