.
To you who truly
treasure self-respect,
has there been a humiliating
instance
when to succumb low,
and sheepishly so,
to public opinion's
preponderance
is neither a betrayal
of your worth
nor a slap to your reason's
countenance?
Do you spinelessly go,
float with the flow
of popular passion and
circumstance?
.
To you who truly treasure self-respect,
has there been a humiliating
instance
when to succumb low, and sheepishly so,
to public opinion's
preponderance
is neither a betrayal of your worth
nor a slap to your reason's
countenance?
and spinelessly you go, float with the flow
of popular passion and
circumstance?
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