Give Us Men

God give us men, a time like this demands

Great hearts, strong minds, true faith and

ready hands:

Men whom the lust of office cannot kill;

Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;

Men who posses opinions and will;

Men who love honor; men who will not lie;

Men who can stand before a demagogue,

And brave his treacherous flatteries without wink-

ing;

Tall men, sunburnt, who live above the fog,

In public duty, and in private thinkging;

For while the rabble, with its thumb-worn creeds,

Its large professions, and its little deeds,

Mingle in selfish strife, lo! freedom weeps,

Wrong rules the land and waiting justice sleeps.