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  Noble be man,

  Helpful and good!

  For that alone

  Distinguisheth him

  From all the beings

  Unto us known.

  Hail to the beings,

  Unknown and glorious,

  Whom we forebode!

From his example

  Learn we to know them!

  For unfeeling

  Nature is ever

  On bad and on good

  The sun alike shineth;

  And on the wicked,

  As on the best,

  The moon and stars gleam.

  Tempest and torrent,

  Thunder and hail,

  Roar on their path,

  Seizing the while,

  As they haste onward,

  One after another.

  Even so, fortune

  Gropes 'mid the throng—

  Innocent boyhood's

  Curly head seizing,—

  Seizing the hoary

  Head of the sinner.

  After laws mighty,

  Brazen, eternal,

  Must all we mortals

  Finish the circuit

  Of our existence.

  Man, and man only

  Can do the impossible

  He 'tis distinguisheth,

  Chooseth and judgeth;

  He to the moment

  Endurance can lend.

  He and he only

  The good can reward,

  The bad can he punish,

  Can heal and can save;

  All that wanders and strays

  Can usefully blend.

  And we pay homage

  To the immortals

  As though they were men,

  And did in the great,

  What the best, in the small,

  Does or might do.

  Be the man that is noble,

  Both helpful and good,

  Unweariedly forming

  The right and the useful,

  A type of those beings

  Our mind hath foreshadow'd!