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1. The kind of a man for you and me!
He faces the world unflinchingly, / And smites, as long as the wrong resists, / With a knuckled faith and force like fists: / He lives the life he is preaching of, / And loves where most is the need of love; / His voice is clear to the deaf man's ears, / And his face sublime through the blind man's tears; / The light shines out where the clouds were dim, / And the widow's prayer goes up for him; / The latch is clicked at the hovel door / And the sick man sees the sun once more, / And out o'er the barren fields he sees / Springing blossoms and waving trees, / Feeling as only the dying may, / That God's own servant has come that way, / Smoothing the path as it still winds on / Through the golden gate where his loved have gone.