Saturday poetry

 Once to Every Man and Nation

Verse 2

Then to side with truth is noble,

When we share her wretched crust,

Ere her cause bring fame and profit,

And is prosperous to be just;

Then it is the brave man chooses

While the coward stands aside,

Till the multitude make virtue

Of the faith they had denied.

— James Russell Lowell, 1819 to 1891