Surely the measure of a man is not to confined

to the quality of his actions

on the battlefields of life, the swift response

to the spectre and dark shadows of looming war

or in how he holds himself when dining out in the company

of a young woman for the first time;

It must be seen above all in the dignity in which he holds

himself aloft when he prepares to say goodbye

to his father for the last time, it is the moment

in which a man becomes a giant.