Truth never dies

Truth never dies. The ages come and go.

The mountains wear away, the stars retire.

Destruction lays earth's mighty cities low;

And empires, states and dynasties expire;

But caught and handed onward by the wise,

Truth never dies.

It answers not. It does not take offense,

But with a mighty silence bides its time.

As some great cliff that braves the elements

And lift through all the storms its head sublime,

It ever stands, uplifted by the wise,

And never dies.