Poems (Linn)/The True Self
THE TRUE SELF.
WHAT though we fail! through failure The spirit learns to rise.Upon the soul we bear the marks Of strife and sacrifice.
That which we dream of doing, That which we wish to be,That which our prayer is pleading With pure intensity:—
This is the truest nature, The God-like and the strong;Struggling and yearning upward Through failure and through wrong.