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Oh! not for the great departed, / Who formed our country's laws, / And not for the bravest-hearted, / Who died in freedom's cause, / And not for some living hero / To whom all bend the knee, / My muse would raise her song of praise -- / But for the man _to be_.
For out of the strife which woman / Is passing through to-day, / A man that is more than human / Shall yet be born, I say. / A man in whose pure spirit / No dross of self will lurk; / A man who is strong to cope with wrong, / A man who is proud to work.