BROTHERHOOD.

BROTHERHOOD.
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All men are equal in their birth,
Heirs of the earth and skies:
All men are equal when that earth
Fades from their dying eyes.

All wait alike on Him whose power
Upholds the life He gave;
The sage within his starlit tower,
The savage in his cave.

God meets the throngs who pay their vows
In courts their hands have made,
And hears the worshipper who bows
Beneath the plantain shade.

Tis man alone who difference sees,
And speaks of high and low,
And warships those, and tramples, these,
While the same path they go.

Oh, let man hasten to restore
To all their rights of love!
In power and wealth exult no more,
In wisdom lowly move.

Your brotherhood revere.
Ye great! renounce your earth born
Ye low! your shame and fear.
Live, as ye worship, side by side;
-Harriet Martineau.