Not a judge on earth could declare which host should be vanquished, nor what man of them all would come victor and quick from the tourney.

But if I prove the victor, then Shall Saul and all his armed men Bend low beneath Philistian yoke.

Harry, though Master Mash's inferior in size and strength, returned this by a punch, and a fight ensued, from which, though severely punished himself, Harry emerged the victor, to be assailed with a chorus of congratulation from those who before were loading him with taunts and outrages.

Sentiment is the heart and soul of war; if it were not, there would be no war, for war never gained as much as it loses; never settled as much as it unsettles; never left victor or vanquished better when the last gun was fired!

Thus speaks the victor in calm retrospect of the long battle.

"I am sorry to interfere with any of your arrangements," said the Princess, "but as soon as I heard the terms of my father's will, I made up my mind to marry the victor in the contest.

We shall return victors, if not heroesat least I know that you and Polly will believe this of your affectionate and dutiful son "JACK.

While Ocampo with his beaten troops fell back to wait for reinforcements, Quiroga pursued the retreating victors, harassed their rear, clogged their every movement, and proved so formidable to the enemy, that Aldao, abandoning his companion, made an arrangement with the government of La Rioja, by which he was to be allowed free passage into San Luis, whither Quiroga was ordered to conduct him.

The gallant heroes to their tents retired, The sweets of rest their wearied limbs required: Sohráb, delighted with his brave career, Describes the fight in Húmán's anxious ear: Tells how he forced unnumbered Chiefs to yield, And stood himself the victor of the field!

By a moral paradox, besides living they must indemnify the victors, according to the Treaties of St. Germain and the Trianon, for all the damages which the War has brought on themselves and which the victors have suffered.

We cry out the victor.

Few knew the victor, so close had been the struggle.

Tell me, ye who scanned The stars, Earth's elders, still must noblest aims Be traced upon oblivious ocean-sands? Must Hesper join the wailing ghosts of names?" "When grass-blades stiffen with red battle-dew, Ye deem we choose the victors and the slain: Say, choose we them that shall be leal and true To the heart's longing, the high faith of brain?

Not unto him alone whom loud acclaim Declares the victor does the meed belong, For others, standing silent in the throng, May well be worthier of a nobler fame;

Rome was not enough for him, nor Pompey's theatre, nor the great hippodrome, but he desired also a foreign tour, in order to become, as he said, victor in all the four contests.

The same may be said for the revolt of the colonial peoples, downgrading all European "victors" in the war of 1914-18, and the social revolutions following 1945 that shook up the planetary power structure and opened the way for socialist-communist forces to begin socialist construction in one country after another.

The danger exists that with the aggravation of the situation in the vanquished countries and the weakening of the economic structure of Europe, the vanquished countries will drag the victors down with them to ruin, while the Anglo-Saxon peoples, standing apart from Continental Europe, will detach themselves more and more from its policy.

There were no soldier shouts of triumph over a defeated foe, no bells in ancient belfrys rang, no Te Deums were sung, and no preacher mounted the rostrum to eulogise the victors or to point the moral to the multitude.

*** The British people still feel themselves the victors, so Mr. RAMSAY MACDONALD told the Vossische Zeitung.

They will feign themselves victors, commanders, are passionate and satirical in their speeches, great braggers, ruddy of colour.

They had approached at its beginninga fight was anybody's to watchthey had applauded its dénouement with shrill and hearty cries, and they now felicitated the victor.

So, with the plunder, and a captured band Of hapless women, ere the morning light Flitted the victors swiftly through the land, Red with the trophies of their deadly fight, Leaving the lion and his hungry crew To clear the morning of this bloody dew.

Or grant him victor, still his hopes must fail, Who, conquering, would not for himself prevail; The faction whom he trusts for future sway, Him and the public would alike betray; Amongst themselves divide the captive state, And found their hydra-empire in his fate!

We recall the great scenes of his triumph, when we hailed him victor on many a bloody field, and when above the paeans of victory we listened with reverence to his voice as he ascribed 'all glory to the Lord of hosts, from whom all glories are.'

Yet they voted to these men many honors for their victory, such as would have been given assuredly to the others, had they conquered; in such crises it is ever the case that all trample on the loser and honor the victor; and in particular they decided, though against their will, to celebrate thanksgivings during practically the entire year.