The - Black - Dog Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

(About Winston Churchill)

But it was not a
straight or easy
path to that degree
of preparation.

Biographers of
Churchill often
refer to his
"wilderness years, "
basically the
decade from
1929 to 1939
when military and
political defeats
made it appear
that his days
as a national
leader were over.



Yet Winston spent
that time in the
wilderness following
public affairs,
keeping himself
ready, often
fighting
discouragement
and perhaps
even depression.

(He called depression
"the black dog") .