A sacred burden is this life ye bear:

Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly,

Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly.

Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin,

But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.

Wendell Phillips (1811-1884): Lines addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Lenox Academy, Mass.

For right is right, since God is God,

And right the day must win;

To doubt would be disloyalty,

To falter would be sin.

Christopher P Cranch (1813-1892): The Right must win.