To Henry Lincoln Johnson⁠—Lawyer + 

Quite firmly did you stand, and unafraid + 

Before that haughty bar that sought to hold + 

You fettered, lest you strengthen and grow bold + 

To break a clearing through that fetid glade + 

Which their benighted prejudice had made; + 

They taunted you with darkling hints of gold, + 

Preferring you were bought as you had sold, + 

They weaved their webs like spiders in the shade. + 

But as a giant in the falling night + 

Of storm, you forged afore with ruthless tread, + 

To offer up your heart’s blood in the fight, + 

Forgetting self, unmindful, unafraid, + 

Nor pausing until thrice acclaimed the right + 

To rally in the tents of those you led. + 