Famous last words ...

Super Bowl Sunday is behind us. Time for some final thoughts, directed primarily at the Patriots. The source may surprise you. Or not.

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag today
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear.
          - Emily Dickinson
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