Pansies (Lawrence)/Triumph

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TRIUMPH
It seems to me that for five thousand years at leastmen have beer: wanting to triumph, triumph, triumphtriumph over their fellow-men, triumph over obstacles, triumph over evil,till now the very word is nauseating, we can't hear it any more.
If we looked in our hearts, we should seewe loathe the thought of any sort of triumphwe are sick of it.

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