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Benson, Arthur Christopher - Courage
Identifier
028288
Type of Spiritual Experience
Invisible input - inspiration
Hallucination
Number of hallucinations: 1
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A description of the experience
Courage - Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862 - 1925)
Original Text: Arthur Christopher Benson, The Professor and Other Poems (London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1900): 58-59. PR 4099 B5P7 Robarts Library
I have been brave in my way,
Though men did not call me brave;
They deem that I creep away,
If ever a pennon wave
Over the flashing fray.
Yet I have lain through the night
Shuddering, open-eyed,
Straining my aching sight
To see what leant at my side,
Angel or sullen sprite.
Then in the haggard day, --
Cruel and cold it shone, --
Sighing in sad dismay,
I bind my armour on;
I have been brave, I say.