If every man would do the things the "other man" should do, Attack the hoodlum, catch the thief, and watch the rascal crew, We'd have a perfect city, and a perfect country, too, A sober land, an honest land, where men are good and true; There'd be no more misgovernment nor graft nor mobs to rue, If every man would do the things the "other man" should do. If we forgot the talents by the "other man" possessed, And never thought to envy him the feathers of his nest, And only thought to grasp from him this chance to do the best, To dare the deed, and meet the need and stand the fiercer test, We'd have a model country, north, south, and east and west, If we forgot the talents by the "other man" possessed. If every man would think himself to be the "other man," Become his own reformer on a self-respecting plan, And calmly, boldly, set himself to do the thing he can, Nor wait to find some other chap to push into the van, The world's entire iniquity we'd put beneath the ban, If every man would think himself to be the "other man." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY by SARA TEASDALE THE LAST MAN by THOMAS CAMPBELL THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 26. FIRST LOVE by THOMAS CAMPION THE CHRONICLE; A BALLAD by ABRAHAM COWLEY PARADISE LOST: BOOK 1 by JOHN MILTON |