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Show Right Shall Rule. Short is the triumph of evil. Long Is the reign of right. The men who win by the aid of sin, The nation that rules by might. The party that lives by corruption. The trickster, the knave, the thief. May thrive for a time on the fruits of crime. But their seeming success Is brief. Sneer If you will at. honor: Make virtue a thrme for jest: -Scoff at the man who strives as he can To seek and to do the best; Make goodness a butt for slander And offer excuse for vice; Proclaim the old lie, the eorruptionlst's cry. That every man has his price. Yet know that the truth shall triumph. That evil shall find Its doom: That the cause of right, tho' subdued by might, Shall brerik from the strongest tomb; That wrong, tho' it seems to triumph, Lasts only for a day, While 1 he cause of truth has eternal youth. And shall rule o'er the world for aye. J. A. Kdgcrton in the )ciiver Newg. |