What the world needs now:
Wanted - a Man!
What we lack and sorely need,
For want of which we bleed, and bleed,
Is men of a more godly breed...
Honest men in highest places;
Men with single aims and faces;
Men whose nobler thought outpaces
Thought of self, or power or pelf...
Men whose axes need no griding;
Men who are not always minding
First their own concerns, and blinding
Their souls' eyes to larger things...
Men of wide and godly vision;
Men of quick and wise decision;
Men who shrink not at derision...
Men whose souls have wings.
John Oxenham as cited in J. Allan Petersen, For Men Only (Weaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishes, 1974), p. i.
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