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# Coward
- URL: https://www.spiritualperspectives.org/coward/
- Published: 2014-12-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-12-21T12:00:00.000Z
- Author: Charles Mackay
- Tags: Articles, #Import 2026-07-23 22:02

> You have no enemies, you say?  
> Alas! my friend, the boast is poor—  
> He who has mingled in the fray  
> Of duty, that the brave endure,  
> Must have made foes! If you have none,  
> Small is the work that you have done;  
> You’ve hit no traitor on the hip;  
> You‘ve dashed no cup from perjured lip;  
> You’ve never turned the wrong to right—  
> You’ve been a coward in the fight!

\[Charles Mackay, the author of “Coward,” was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1812 and educated in London. He was a journalist and a poet.\]