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Said the boy as he read, "I too will be bold, / I will fight for the truth and its glory!"
He went to the playground, and soon had told / A very cowardly story!
Said the girl as she read, "That was grand, I declare!
What a true, what a lovely, sweet soul!"
In half-an-hour she went up the stair, / Looking as black as a coal!
"The mean little wretch, I wish I could fling / This book at his head! " said another; / Then he went and did the same ugly thing / To his own little trusting brother!
Alas for him who sees a thing grand / And does not fit himself to it!
But the meanest act, on sea or on land, / Is to find a fault, and then do it!