Wanted by all the people—
A servant
Born of those who serve and aspire
Who has known want and trouble
And all that passes in The Little House of the Poor:
Lonely thought, counsels of love and prudence,
The happiness born of a penny,
The need of the strange and mighty dollar
And the love of things above all its power
of measurement.
The dreams that come of weariness and
the hard bed,
The thirst for learning as a Great Deliverer.
Who has felt in his heart the weakness and the strength
of his brothers
And, above all, the divinity that dwells in them.
Who, therefore, shall have faith in men and women
And knowledge of their wrongs and needs and of their
proneness to error.
Humbly must he listen to their voice, as one who knows
that God will
often speak in it,
And have charity even for his own judgments.
Thus removed, far removed from the conceit and vanity
of Princes
Shall he know how great is the master he has chosen
to serve.