Reward
There is great gain, Of pride and pain:
Let me be proud to claim the highest for my own: Let me bear pain, to fight my claim alone.
Anna Wickham
There is great gain, Of pride and pain:
Let me be proud to claim the highest for my own: Let me bear pain, to fight my claim alone.
Anna Wickham’s short verse reads like a personal vow. The speaker insists that real achievement brings two things together: pride and pain. There is no reward without both. She wants the glory of reaching the highest point, but she also accepts that she must suffer and struggle for it on her own.
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