You Learn By Living

Who showed the world the world itself

Was awkward, shy and plain.

A high-born leader in a long,

Low decade full of pain.

Poor farmers, blacks, homeless, the least

Advantaged hoped to see,

Magnificently unarrayed,

Pure human dignity.

A lady first, the great first lady

Looked fear in the face,

And said, There is no room for fear

When courage take its place.