Classic Poem

Genteel in personage,
Conduct, and equipage,
Noble by heritage,
— Generous and free:
Brave, not romantic;
Learned, not pedantic;
Frolic, not frantic;
— This must he be.

Honor maintaining,
Meanness disdaining,
Still entertaining,
— Engaging and new.
Neat, but not finical;
Sage, but not cynical;
Never tyrannical,
— But ever true.