| Let your speech be the thoughts of your soul,
"What they say" is burdened with lies; Never tarnish your love for the truth, In repeating the rumor that flies. For despised is the man who will steal The good name his neighbor may wear; It will profit him nothing to take, While a curse will his soul ever bear. Once this garment of righteousness soiled, Stains upon it forever will stay; Let your lips never carry the smutch, That will rot in eternal decay. "What they say" has brought sorrow and pain, To the innocent, just, and the pure; Don't number yourself with the throng Common decency cannot endure. __James A. DeMoss |
Kansas Zephyrs
James A. DeMoss
(Thayer, Kansas: ___. 1892)
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