“Yet have we well begun,
Battles so bravely won
Have ever to the sun
By fame been raisëd.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) English poet
Source: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 29-32.
“For freedom's battle, once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, is ever won.”
Source: The Giaour (1813), Line 123.
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