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CREED AND DEED by ROBERT LOVEMAN

First Line: WHAT CARE I FOR CASTE OR CREED?
Last Line: ONE GOD AND ONE HUMANITY.
Subject(s): BROTHERHOOD; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;

What care I for caste or creed?
It is the deed, it is the deed;
What for class or what for clan?
It is the man, it is the man;
Heirs of love, and joy, and woe,
Who is high, and who is low?
Mountain, valley, sky, and sea,
Are for all humanity.

What care I for robe or stole?
It is the soul, it is the soul;
What for crown, or what for crest?
It is the heart within the breast;
It is the faith, it is the hope,
It is the struggle up the slope,
It is the brain and eye to see,
One God and one humanity.



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