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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 3, 1881

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 5.

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The Home Circle.

TRUE HEROISM.

LET others write of battles fought On bloody, ghastly fields, Where honor greets the man who wins, And death the man who yields; But I will write of that brave man Who struggles on through years Against himself, and wins the day Unstained by human tears.
He is a hero staunch and brave, Who fights an unseen foe, And puts at last beneath his feet, His passions base and low, And stands erect in manhood's might, Undaunted, undismayed, The bravest man that drew a sword In fury or in raid.
It calls for something more than brawn Or muscle to o'ercome An enemy who marcheth not With banner, plume or drum; A foe forever lurking nigh, With silent, stealthy tread, Beside your board each passing day, At night beside your bed.
All honor then to that brave heart, Though poor or rich he be, Who struggles with his baser part, Who conquers and is free. He may not wear a hero's crown, Nor fill a hero's grave, But truth will place his name among The bravest of the brave.