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Don’t borrow a creed from other people, Nor hang most faith on the stoutest steeple. Look up for your law, but oh! look higher Than the hands on any human spire. If ten think alike, and you think alone, That never proves ’tis ten to one They are right, you wrong; for truth, you see, Is not a thing of majority. It never can make you false, them true, That there’s more of them than there is of you: If your touch is on Truth’s garment’s hem, There is more of you than a world of them. ’Tis not alone in the Orient region That a certain hero’s name is Legion. Nor was it only for once to be That the whole herd together ran down to the sea. Your zenith for no man else is true: Your beam from the sun comes alone to you. And the thought the great God gave your brain Is your own for the world, or the world’s in vain.
Don’t borrow a creed from other people, Nor hang most faith on the stoutest steeple. Look up for your law, but oh! look higher Than the hands on any human spire. If ten think alike, and you think alone, That never proves ’tis ten to one They are right, you wrong; for truth, you see, Is not a thing of majority. It never can make you false, them true, That there’s more of them than there is of you: If your touch is on Truth’s garment’s hem, There is more of you than a world of them. ’Tis not alone in the Orient region That a certain hero’s name is Legion. Nor was it only for once to be That the whole herd together ran down to the sea. Your zenith for no man else is true: Your beam from the sun comes alone to you. And the thought the great God gave your brain Is your own for the world, or the world’s in vain.
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- Edward Rowland Sill
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 132; printed byline: Edward Rowland Sill; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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