undefeated

                                          Within or without,
                                          Selling out to a sell-out crowd,
                                          Only a defeated man goes to war --
                                          How else could vict'ry taste so sweet?

                                          While all along the wooded path
                                          The bluebells sound a gay applause
                                          For tear-stained passages
                                          They cannot -- 
                                          Nor ever could -- 
                                          Admire.