If slander stains my name, then be it so—
Rude jealousy takes aim at higher mark.
Men of just standing plainly come to know
That knaves and fools such drivel do impart.
Black words so said or writ are easy paid,
Only shaded minds provide them worth,
For  spreading such works to whose guileful aid?
And what dark craft gives such deceit its berth?
All men of sense do know, be well assured;
That truth trumps falsehood ever is the case.
In voice and action, lies will be demurred,
For truth, in time, can never be defaced,
And men of lies shall ever meet defeat—
And men of virtue ever will be great.

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