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Say not the struggle naught availeth
Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The poem urges readers not to declare that all effort is useless. It voices the discouraging view that labour and wounds count for nothing, the enemy remains strong, and nothing has changed, then implicitly resists giving in to that despair.
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