Poem - "Success Is Counted Sweetest" by Emily Dickinson

"Success Is Counted Sweetest" 
by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest


By those who ne'er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host


Who took the Flag today

Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory

As he defeated-dying


On whose forbidden ear

The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!