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Louisiana State Senate Poem

"Leadership"

Written by Jean McGivney Boese

Adopted in 1999

The official state poem of the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana, written by Jean McGivney Boese, and entitled, "Leadership", was adopted in 1999

"Leadership"

"It is easy to bend with the wind and be weak,
Wrapped in silence when it would take courage to speak,
To do nothing when crises demand that you act;
To prefer a delusion to unpleasant fact.
But the easy evasions that dreamers embrace
Are denied to a leader with problems to face.
He must cope with the world as he finds it, and plan
To make each hard decision as well as he can.
He can't hide from the truth or deny what is real.
Though a lie might assuage all the fears people feel.
For the truth is the truth, and no lie can prevail.
In a world that is real, one must face truth or fail."

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§155.5. State Senate poem

There shall be an official state Senate poem. The official state poem of the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana, written by Jean McGivney Boese, and entitled, "Leadership", reads as follows:

Acts 1999, No. 843, §1.

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symbol \ˈsim-bəl\
noun

Etymology:
in sense 1, from Late Latin symbolum, from Late Greek symbolon, from Greek, token, sign; in other senses from Latin symbolum token, sign, symbol, from Greek symbolon, literally, token of identity verified by comparing its other half, from symballein to throw together, compare, from syn- + ballein to throw — more at devil
Date: 15th century

1: Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible.

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