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Recorded Reading (1:06): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wj9lsqaxkie3uptxvhwqp/Life-is-Not-Victory-Nor-Death-Defeat.mp3?rlkey=gssn4pzvzo18itf5r3pisf368&dl=0

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Life is not Victory, Nor Death Defeat

Yes, this is what the greatest of them knew
They knew beyond the shadow of a doubt
That victory is but to see it through
To run the extra mile, to last it out

To answer when history’s strictest call
Beckons with iron finger crooked by fate
To serve, instead of merely one, the All,
To something lasting for this world create

Do souls of MLK and Gandhi Ji
In sad regret and melancholy go
Who had their hand in shaping history?
Deep in mine own soul, I do not think so

Though it is to be treasured, for ’tis sweet
Life is not victory, nor death defeat

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