Nature
Good Speech
From Alcyone (1899)
Nature
Think not, because thine inmost heart means well,
Thou hast the freedom of rude speech: sweet words
Are like the voices of returning birds
Filling the soul with summer, or a bell
That calls the weary and the sick to prayer.
Even as thy thought, so let thy speech be fair.
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Codex Note
From Alcyone (1899)
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Lampman, Archibald. “Good Speech.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lampman/127/.
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Lampman, Archibald. “Good Speech.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lampman/127/.
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