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True Nobility: A Poem

Improvement Era, vol. 4, no. 8, June 1901, p. 623

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TRUE NOBILITY,

"What is noble? 'Tis the finer portion of our mind and heart Linked to something still diviner than mere language can impart; Ever prompting, ever seeing some improvement yet to plan, To uplift our fellow-being, and like man to feel for man. What is noble? That which places truth in its enfranchised will, Leaving steps like angel traces that mankind may follow still. E'en though scorn's malignant glances prove him poorest of his clan. He's the noble who advances freedom and the cause of man."