| Peter J. Gomes - Religion - 2009 - 386 pages
...what warriors engage in, he not only contemplates failure and defeat; he is prepared to endure them. But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad, for human kind, Is happy as lover; and attired With sudden brightness... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 373 pages
...already upon the future as upon the past, and were glad. They knew him now the Happy Warrior, " Wbose powers shed round him, in the common strife Or mild...upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad, for humankind, la happy as a Lover; and attired With sadden brightness,... | |
| William Safire - Political Science - 2008 - 888 pages
...Happy Warrior": Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? . . . But who if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover . . . Writer of the speech was... | |
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