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Show I POETS' CORNER. JPor (Ae (7ton QUERY. Whit know we, of the inner life, Of the souls that move around us The innr life that forms two lives. With the humau ties that bind us; Though often a word, a look, a tone, May seem to express true feeling, Still ofteaer leaviuga vai-uo distrust. Or suspicion of unfair deiling. 'Actions speak louder than words' 'iisaaid, By whom, though, I do not remember, Many a one, to be judged by this, ! Are cold hearted aa bleak December: And those whose actions in every day life, Aro strikingly ki .d and loving, Carelessly live, and carelessly die, Their want of affection proving For they that cherish deepest love, Will aro to-day audio-morrow, I Seeking in every way to shield, Tiio loved from cure and sorrow: Knowing that life can never be given, When onco it is taken away, And they as truly murderers are, That only byinches slay ., Then it appears a most serious thing, To know how to manage each other, Mother and maiden, sister and wife, Faiher. and son. and brother. I Husbands and wives, living two lives, Nor ever the problem solving, Though science mount higher than vaulted skies Among the planets revolving. July 1878. |