The Poetry of Real Life A New Edition, Much Enlarged and Improved. By Henry Ellison |
WHEREIN ALL MEN MAY BE GREAT. |
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WHEREIN ALL MEN MAY BE GREAT.
The greatest man is not so great but weMay imitate him, so far as he is
A man; for to be quite a man, this, this
Is in the reach of all! howe'er he be,
In wealth, power, genius, raised above us, he
Is but our equal as a Man: nay, his
Best glory is to be so! Let him miss
This brightest crown of true humanity,
And he is no more great! In doing good
None need be little: for the poorest can
Give most, though but the crust which is his food!
And he whom Fancy , towering in her van,
Made greatest Poet, by a pure heart could
Become, and was, far more—a great, good Man.
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