To the polite free of access
Easily comes courteousness.
Humanity and noble birth
Develop courtesy and moral worth.
Likeness in limbs is not likeness
It's likeness in kind courteousness.
The world applauds those helpful men
Whose actions are just and benign.
The courteous don't even foes detest
For contempt offends even in jest.
The world rests with the mannered best
Or it crumbles and falls to dust.
The mannerless though sharp like file
Are like wooden blocks indocile.
Discourtesy is mean indeed
E'en to a base unfriendly breed.
To those bereft of smiling light
Even in day the earth is night.
The wealth heaped by the churlish base
i« mire milk soured by impure vase.
COURTESY
