Tin: 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 a mountain height 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 pay with courage
With courage to behold the resistless day
And count it fair
Courage, courage is the price that life exacts