BEHOLD A MAN!
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There stands a Man! unyielding and defiant, A master Leader, bold and self-reliant. He seeks no conquest but his lance is set Against the ruthless Despot's parapet. Alert and conscious of his strength, his thrust Is sure and timely, for his cause is just. Invincible, he rallies to his cause Those who love Justice and respect the laws. To skulking traitors and to spying foes He shows no mercy, but his heart o'erflows For those oppressed, who live, nay! who exist Where arrogance and tyranny persist: But, tho distressed by all this human grief, He weeps not idly, but compels relief: And those he serves by act or speech or pen, One Hundred Million freemen, shout, Amen! "Safe for Democracy the world must be, And all its bondaged peoples shall be free!" So spake the Man: America thus voiced Its ultimatum, and the Earth rejoiced! Intensely human, cast from mortal clay In Nature's mould, one epoch-making day, Behold a Man! he seems a higher sort, Refined with purest gold from God's Retort And filled with skill and wisdom, Heaven-sent: God bless and keep our peerless President!