• Author: Selected
• Editor: B-7413
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume 5
• Page Number:
• Date: 10 18 1916
• Tags:
• poetry

THE TEST OF A MAN

Not by the measure of his deed Does life make trial of man’s strength; Not by his wisdom, nor his creed, Nor yet by his compassion’s length.

Nor by his span of worldly power, Nor even what his truth might dare; But ’prisoned in his darkest hour, But how much he can bravely bear!

—Selected.