Courage

Courage
Courage is the price that life exacts
Courage
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 dull, gray ugliness
And pregnant hate, and pregnant hate
Unless we dare, unless we dare
The soul's dominion

Each time we make a choice, we way
With courage, with courage
To behold the resistless day
And count it fair

Courage
Courage is the price that life exacts