A Poem For Today - The Good Man

[KEN DICKINSON]

The Good Man

I met a man on Life's thronged way, 

And thought at once that man was good;

I learned to know him; strange to say, 

Still thought I that the man was good.

A virtue loves he, not for praise.

Bul for that virlues sake, to daze 

By show disdained he, Years his ways 

I watched, and still, O still I thought him good.

Ah! ask you why, amidst the van 

Of heroes, place I him who ran 

His race of life in goodness true?

Ask you what marvel did he do?

Duty to God, and self and man!

He ended good as he began;

Such men, alas, are few!

Richard Lynott O’Malley

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