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Secrets to Seducing a ScotGOD, GIVE US MEN!GOD, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office can not buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty, and in private thinking;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds, Their large professions and their little deeds, Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps, Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps.
--JOSIAH Gilbert HOLLAND (1819-1881)Copyright © 2011 by Michelle Marcos.