Classic Poem

If all the voices of men called out warning you and you could not join your voices with their voices,
If all the faces of men were turned one way and you met them face to face you going another,
You still must not be persuaded to capitulation, you will remember that the road rums east as well as west.

And he said to his enemies:
I wait, I wait, I wait, to be sure that your severest word is said
So that I may withdraw and address to myself severer words.