"[Poem about difficulties helping us to grow in knowledge, skills and attitudes. The poem is called 'Victory in Defeat':]
Defeat may serve as well as victory,
To shake the soul and let the glory out!
When the great oak is straining in the wind,
The boughs drink in new beauty, and the trunk,
Sends down a deeper root on the windward side.
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief,
Can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come,
to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
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Edwin Markham
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