A MAN MUST LIVE

[Therese Daniels]

A MAN MUST LIVE

A man must live. We justify.
Low shift and trick to treason high,
A little vote for a little gold
To a whole senate bought and sold,
By that self evident reply.

But is it so? Pray tell me why
Life at such a cost you have to buy?
IN what religion were you told
A man must live?

There are times when a man must die.
Imagine, for a battle-cry,
From soldiers, with a sword to hold,
From soldiers, with the flag unrolled,
This coward's whine, this liar's lie--
A man must live!

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman