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A LEGEND OF TRUTH
Once on a time, the ancient legends tell, / Truth, rising from the bottom of her well, / Looked on the world, but, hearing how it lied, / Returned to her seclusion horrified. / There she abode, so conscious of her worth, / Not even Pilate's Question called her forth, / Nor Galileo, kneeling to deny / The Laws that hold our Planet 'neath the sky. / Meantime, her kindlier sister, whom men call / Fiction, did all her work and more than all, / With so much zeal, devotion, tact, and care, / That no one noticed Truth was otherwhere.