WHAT MAKES A MAN?
A TRUTHFUL soul, a loving mind,
Full of affection for its kind;
A helper of the human race,
A soul of beauty and of grace;
A spirit firm, erect, and free,
That never basely bends the knee,
That will not bear a feather's weight
Of slavery's chain, for small or great;
That firmly speaks of God within,
And never makes a league with sin;
That snaps the fetters despots make,
And loves the truth for its own sake;
That trembles at no tyrant's nod
A soul that fears no one but God,
And thus can smile at curse and ban;
This is the soul that makes the man.
TRUTH is immortal;
the sword cannot pierce it,
fire cannot consume it,
prisons cannot incarcerate it,
famine cannot starve it.