Explore "The Scarlet Gown: THE BANISHED BEJANT FROM THE UNPUBLISHED REMAINS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE" by Robert Fuller Murray on Textopian.
Ever to be the best. To lead / In whatsoever things are true; / Not stand among the halting crew, / The faint of heart, the feeble-kneed, / Who tarry for a certain sign / To make them follow with the rest -- / Oh, let not their reproach be thine! / But ever be the best.
For want of this aspiring soul, / Great deeds on earth remain undone, / But, sharpened by the sight of one, / Many shall press toward the goal. / Thou running foremost of the throng, / The fire of striving in thy breast, / Shalt win, although the race be long, / And ever be the best.