Defeat. Speak History! Who are Life's victors? Unroll thy long annals and say, Are they those whom the world called the victors, who won the success of a day? The Martyrs or Nero? The Spartans who fell at Thermopylae's tryst Or the Persians and Xerxes? His judges, or Socrates? Pilate or Christ? — W. W. Story. Blackwood's Magazine, 1881.