Emily Belsey

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 mountain heights where bitter joy can hear / The sound of wings.

How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate / For dull grey ugliness and pregnant hate / Unless we dare / The soul’s dominion?  Each time we make a choice, we pay / With courage to behold the restless day, / And count it fair.

–Amelia Earhart, 1927. 

“Courage” appeared in Marion Perkin’s “Who Is Amelia Earhart?” Survey Magazine, July 1, 1928, p. 60. 

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