All men are equal in their birth,
Heirs of the earth and skies;
All men are equal, when that earth
Fades from their dying eyes.

All wait alike on him, whose pow'r
Upholds the life he gave; —
The sage within his star-lit tow'r, —
The savage in his cave.

'Tis man alone who diff'rence sees,
And speaks of high and low;
Who worships those and tramples these,
While the same path they go.

Ye great! renounce your earth-born pride,
Ye low! your shame and fear;
Live, as ye worship, side by side,
Your common claims revere.