• Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

    Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet,
Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.
    Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.163