Nepal, Feb. 14 -- During the darkest days of World War II, as young British pilots valiantly fought the Luftwaffe over southern England and German forces prepared to invade the British Isles, Prime Minister Winston Churchill took on the task of boosting his fellow citizens' morale, offering them a brighter future to look forward to.

To this end, Churchill's inspirational wartime speeches occasionally featured a poem he likely encountered at Harrow School in the late nineteenth century. The poem, authored by Arthur Hugh Clough, a scholar who had served as an assistant to Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, urged people to reject the notion that fighting for good was futile. It concluded with the phrase, "Westward, look, t...