Rosemary and Pansies

<h2><SPAN name="HEROES" id="HEROES"></SPAN>HEROES</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Men, for the sake of those they loved,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Have met death unafraid,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Deeming by safety of their friends<br/></span> <span class="i2">Their life’s loss well repaid.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Men have attained, by dauntless toil,<br/></span> <span class="i2">To purpose pure and high,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The darkness of their rugged ways<br/></span> <span class="i2">Lit by a loved one’s eye.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Heroes were they, yet God to them<br/></span> <span class="i2">Gave not the task most hard,<br/></span> <span class="i0">For sweet it is to live or die<br/></span> <span class="i2">When love is our reward.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The bravest soul that ever lived<br/></span> <span class="i2">Is he, unloved, unknown,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Who has chosen to walk life’s highest path,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Though he must walk alone;<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Who has toiled with sure and steadfast hands<br/></span> <span class="i2">Through all his lonely days,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Unhelped by Love’s sweet services,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Uncheered by Love’s sweet praise;<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_21" id="page_21">{21}</SPAN></span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Who, by no earthly honors crowned,<br/></span> <span class="i2">Kinglike has lived and died,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Giving his best to life, though life<br/></span> <span class="i2">To him her best denied.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />