Poems (Kennedy)/Day by Day
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DAY BY DAY
NIGHTFALL, and the daytime's fierce battle Is over and done;Red is my sword, deep red with the carnage Of conflicts unwon.
Beaten, discouraged with failure, Forsaken, betrayed—Yet I ask for no help and no quarter, I yield neither banner nor blade.
For he who is armed, though defeated, May yet hold his post,And a flag still unfurled is the signal That hope is not lost.
And the night is but truce to day's struggle, A rift in the pain;I must keep my high place on the ramparts— For tomorrow we fight again.