A demi-grain of cowardice in me

Avowed, were poison to the whole mankind;

When men are plentier, ’twill be time to try;

At present, no.

No;

Shake it all up and go.

That is the word, and that must be obeyed.

I must be off. But yet again some day

Again will I resume it; if not I,

I in some child of late posterity.