Great glory crowns the heights of hope by arduous struggle won
Bright honour rounds the hoary head that mighty works hath done;
Fair riches come to him who strives in ways of golden gain,
And fame enshrines his name who works with genius-glowing brain:
But greater glory waits for him who in the boldness strife
'Gainst self and wrong, adopt, in love, the sacrificial life;
And brighter honour rounds the brow of him who, 'mid the scorns
Of blind idolaters of self, accepts the crown of thorns;
And fairer, purer riches come to him who greatly strives
To walk in ways of love and truth to sweeten human lives;
And he who serveth well mankind exchanges fleeting fame
For Light eternal, Joy and Peace and robes of heavenly flame.
