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Clough,
Arthur Hugh
Arthur Hugh Clough was an English poet, the brother of suffragist Anne Clough. English poet an educationalist and assistant to Florence Nightingale
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Say not the Struggle Naught availeth
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Written by:
Arthur Hugh
Clough
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SAY not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the field.
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!
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