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Lay of The Higher Law

“Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;
“He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.”

The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Via Philip Jose Farmer.