Hymn for Defending Hope by minnabird
Summary:
"We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on."

-Albus Dumbledore

Nominated for Best Poem in the 2011 Quicksilver Quill Awards


Categories: Poetry Characters: None
Warnings: None
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Series: None
Chapters: 1 Completed: Yes Word count: 118 Read: 1821 Published: 03/09/11 Updated: 03/13/11

1. Fight on, my friends, fight on! by minnabird

Fight on, my friends, fight on! by minnabird
Author's Notes:
This poem was written for the Dumbledore Challenge in Poetry Anyone. It won first place! =D

 

Fight on, my friends, fight on!
We must slog on; though tired, unresting;
the time for pain is gone.

The battle’s long, our soldiers wan,
each battered, bitten limb protesting.
Fight on, my friends, fight on,

For don’t you see that with the dawn
our vict’ry song will rise, attesting,
“The time for pain is gone”?

See the truth: our wands are drawn;
we’re doing more than just suggesting,
“Fight on, my friends, fight on”!

Dementors flee a shimmering swan;
with white it fights their vile detesting.
The time for pain is gone.

The Lord above looks hereupon.
His light within our hearts is nesting.
So fight on, my friends, fight on;
the time for pain is gone!

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