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Life may be given in many ways

And loyalty to truth be sealed

As bravely in the closet as the field,

So generous is fate;

But then to stand beside her,

When craven churls deride her,

To front a lie in arms, and not to yield,

This shows, methinks, God's plan

And measure of a stalwart man,

Limbed like the old heroic breeds,

Who stands self-poised on manhood's solid earth,

Not forced to frame excuses for his birth,

Fed from within with all the strength he needs.

J. R. Lowell.