Classic Poem

Who is the Common Man? By whom defined?
How his ingredient nature estimate?
By what alembic differentiate
The universal from the special kind,
Or what potential slumbers in each mind?
The great how little, and the smallest great!
Was not the Savior to the middle rate
By the proud rulers of the world assigned?
All men are men; no man is more: bound all
In one democracy of blood, the same;
Coequal heritors of sense and soul;
Whirled round diurnal on this earthly ball,
Resolved to common dust from which they came,
Brethren alike in origin and goal.