You have No Enemies?

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 have dashed no cup from perjured lip,

You have never turned wrong to right,

You have been a coward in the fight.

--  Charles Mackay

(From Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s Jail Notebook)