Truth never
dies. The ages come and go.
the mountain wear away, the stars retire.
Destruction lays earth's mighty cities low;
And empires, states and dynasties expire;
But caught and handed onward by the wise,
Truth
Never dies.
Though
unreceived and scoffed at through the years;
Though made the butt of ridicule and jest;
Though held aloft for mockery and jeers,
Denied by those of transient power possessed,
Insulted by the insolence of lies,
Truth
never dies.
It answers not.
It does not take offence,
But with a might silence bides its time;
As some great cliff that braves the elements;
And lifts through all the storms its head sublime,
It ever stands, uplifted by the wise;
And
never dies.
As rests the
Sphinx amid Egyptian sands;
As looms on high the snowy peak and crest;
As firm and patient as Gibraltar stands;
So truth, unwearied, waits the era blest
When men shall turn to it with great surprise.
Truth
never dies
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