You Learn By Living
By J. Patrick Lewis b. 1942
for Eleanor Roosevelt
Who showed the world the world itself
Was awkward, shy and plain.
A high-born leader in a long,
Low decade full of pain.
Poor farmers, blacks, homeless, the least
Advantaged hoped to see,
Magnificently unarrayed,
Pure human dignity.
A lady first, the great first lady
Looked fear in the face,
And said, There is no room for fear
When courage take its place.
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