Raise up the banner of forlorn defence -
A jest to the complacency of crowds -
Bright-haloed with the one diviner sense:
To hold itself as nothing to itself;
And in the quest of its imagined star
To lose all thought of after-recompense! (John Galsworthy)

Raise up the banner of forlorn defence - A jest to the complacency of crowds - Bright-haloed with the one diviner sense: To hold itself as nothing to itself; And in the quest of its imagined star To lose all thought of after-recompense!

John Galsworthy

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