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Embrace and hug the odd ball Maverick,

Then let him go and free to take his leap;

T’s is wise to ignore what makes a fellow tick

Or why he simply will not follow sheep.



Embrace and hug the stubborn Heretik.

And hold for naught his anathema’s taint

Today  he’s spurned and scorned, and gets the stick;

Tomorrow he will be declared a saint.



Join eulogies and the panegyric

Fool Harlequin, John Doe, or Don Quixote,

But mind the stuffed-shirt, bluenose and the prig

That passionless knows neither cold nor hot.



And keep away of bumptious rhetoric

That will not let your little candle burn,

But sermonizing tries to dowse its wick

The things that man by his own sweat must learn.