Good Speech Poem by Archibald Lampman

Good Speech

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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.

Archibald Lampman
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Topic(s) of this poem: birds,freedom,sick,summer,voices
poem poems freedom sick summer Voices birds
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