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A Word to Matthew Arnold
When the forts of folly fall,
Will the victors comprehend How you sought to meet your end: To scale or to defend the wall, Or scale and then defend? February 2007
From the Daily Whale.
Referring to the Matthew Arnold poem The Last Word. The key lines are at the end:
Let the victors, when they come, |