Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been they remain.
Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough
Macmillan, 1903.
Collected edition of Clough's poems. 8vo. Finely bound in half brown crushed morocco, with Arts & Crafts style lettering and decoration to the spine. A very handsome copy indeed.
Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) was an English poet, an educationalist, and assistant to Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. Clough is perhaps best known for the poem "Say not the struggle naught availeth."
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