Brother of mine

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Brother of mine</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I am my Brother's keeper, not his jailor nor his guard, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But the keeper of his confidence, the guardian of his trust; </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The one that he can turn to when the face of Fate is hard, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>As I would hope to turn to him when I am in the dust. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I am my Brother's keeper, in his time of bitter need </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>When only human brotherhood can lift him from despair </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I hold that love and charity are in the Master's creed </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And if my brother needs me he will know that I am there. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I am my Brother's keeper, and my Brother, too, is mine. </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I give my faith and comradeship because his own are sure; </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>For only by such loyalties can what is high and fine </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In this, our little-mortal world, continue and endure.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I am my Brother's keeper; on the battlefield of life </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I fight to save my Brother-as my Brother fights for me, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Blind side by side together in the turmoil and the strife </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>We seek the Peace of Brotherhood we shalt not live to see. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I am my Brother?s keeper, and if any deed or word </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Can aid him when he loses, or can guide him when he wins, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>They're his but for the asking. Yet if mayhap he has erred </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I shall not twit my Brother as he suffers for his sins. </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The duty that I owe him is to prove as leat and brave </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>As I would have him be to me throughout our earthly span. </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I am my Brother's keeper from the cradle to the grave, </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Blood-brother to each comrade in the Brotherhood of Man!</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><I>New York Masonic Outlook</I><I> </I><I>- </I><I> October 1927</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>