To Those Who’ve Fail’d + 

To those who’ve fail’d, in aspiration vast, + 

To unnam’d soldiers fallen in front on the lead, + 

To calm, devoted engineers⁠—to over-ardent travelers⁠—to pilots on their ships, + 

To many a lofty song and picture without recognition⁠—I’d rear a laurel-cover’d monument, + 

High, high above the rest⁠—To all cut off before their time, + 

Possess’d by some strange spirit of fire, + 

Quench’d by an early death. + 