Thursday, January 21, 2021

Yes, 'Then to side with truth is noble When we share her wretched crust...Though her portion be the scaffold, And upon the throne be wrong': 'Ere [Truth's] cause bring fame and profit, And 'tis prosperous to be just, Then it is the brave man chooses, While the coward stands aside'

Due credit to the great hymnist, James Russell Lowell, whose 'Once to Every Man and Nation' has long been a special source of personal inspiration, as it evidently also was to one of my lifetime mentors, Dr Martin Luther King, Junior...

...and whose 'immortal' lyrics are every bit as relevant today as they were in the fraught Dark Ages about which he doubtlessly wrote.

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