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Poetry: Manhood

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
July
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
Additional Text

A 1795 song by Scottish poet Robert Burns. Alternate title: "A Man's A Man For A' That."

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Ia there, (or honest poverty. That hangs his head, and all tliat? Thecoward slave, we pass him by, We daré be poor for all that, For all that and all that. Our toil's obscure, and all that, The rank is but the guniea's stamp, The man's the gold for all that. Whai though on homely fare we dine, Wear hodden gray, and alj that? Give fools their silks. and knaves their wine A man's a man. for all that; For all that, and all that; Their tinsel show. and all that; The honest man, though e' er eo poor, Is king of men, for all that. You see yon fellow called a lord, VVho etruts and stares and all that? Though hundreds worship at his word. He's but a dunce for all that; For all that, and all that; For all that, and all that; The man of independent rnind, He looks and laughs at all that. .A prince can make a belted knight, A marquis, duke. and all thati But an honest man's above his might, Good íaith has he for all that; 'Their dignities. and all that; Fur all ihat, and all that; The pub ofsensennd pride of wortfe Are hitrher ranUs than all that. "Then let us pray that come it may, ' As come it will (or all that, 'Thai sense and worili; o'er ali the earth, May beai the palm; arrJ all that; forall ihat, and all that, lts coming yet for all that, Thni man to man, the world all o'erf Shnü brothers be for all that.