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CHARACTER of the HAPPY WARRIOR.
Who is the happy Warrrior? Who is heWhom every Man in arms should wish to be?———It is the generous Spirit, who, when broughtAmong the tasks of real life, hath wroughtUpon the plan that pleased his childish thought:Whose high endeavours are an inward lightThat make the path before him always bright:Who, with a natural instinct to discernWhat knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn;