Poems That Every Child Should Know/A Fragment from Julius Caesar
A Fragment from Mark Antony's Speech.
This was the noblest Roman of them all:
All the conspirators, save only he,
Did that they did in envy of great Cæsar;
He only, in a general honest thought
And common good to all, made one of them.
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, "This was a man!"
Shakespeare ("Julius Cæsar").