Courage
     ---Amelia Earhart

    Courage is the price that Life exacts
    for granting peace.
    The soul that knows it not
    knows no release from little things:
    knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
    Nor mountain heights where bitter
    joy can hear
    The sound of wings.

    How can life grant us boon of living,
    compensate
    For the dull grey ugliness and pregnant
    hate
    Unless we dare
    The soul's dominion? Each time we
    make a choice, we pay
    With courage to behold the resistless
    day,
    And count it fair.

      ---Amelia Earhart


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