TAKE THE MAN AS YOU FIND HIM.
As we toddlo along through tho journey of lifa, The most, of us meet many heart- breaking dangers ; For it's hard in the midst of its quirking and strife - To detect the "true blue" from the false . among strangers. . But judge every man whom you meet ou your way, Not so much by the name ho haa painted behind him, . .; , . Much less what his neighbors about him may say, . • . Bub chiefly, my friends, take the man as you find him, When firsb Mr Sleekie and I fell acquaint. His name stood for all that was honest and candid • , But he proved after all such a pitiful gent, Thab. soon our acquaintance I gladly dis* handed. Tom 'J ones, on the- other hand, tugged ' and wan, With a character fit for tho bobbiea to hkd him, .. ; . Proved, to. me everything that betokens a man j. So you sco we should take every man as we find him. *" There's many knave-in the garb of a priest, Whose pious appearance seems all that is . rioble ,'-.'•, 7 '-' 1 '.-. .'• There's many a hind with a true heart, ,at least, Whose' frame may be course as a fisher's old cobble.: , . Not so much froro-the past or from what is to bo Should we judge of a man and presume to unwind him :.,/.- The " now'a" the criterion;, all must agree ; In short, we should just take the man as we him. i: -v
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Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 76, 23 December 1875, Page 7
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243TAKE THE MAN AS YOU FIND HIM. Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 76, 23 December 1875, Page 7
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