Social Commentaries
Poetic Aphorisms: Truth
From Translations
Social Commentaries
When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire,
Ha! how soon they all are silent! Thus Truth silences the liar.
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Codex Note
Translated by Longfellow from Friedrich von Logau, German
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MLA
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Poetic Aphorisms: Truth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/longfellow/381/.
Chicago
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “Poetic Aphorisms: Truth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/longfellow/381/.
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