| Show OUR OWN t by DOUGLAS MALLOCH i 4 i S W E ARE so BO careful of our speech vv when strangers listen lest we say buy somo some word unkind our lips we tench teach to guard thern themselves selves by bight and day for fear somo some care careless lessi thoughtless word z may alay by the passing throng throne be heard but wah our own olva I 1 wife brother friend or husband sister mother elre words that old friendship may offend that burn the heart of love like fire we sow eow like thistles whistles es evry everywhere where and kill lifes roses with the tare yet how important words of ours to those who love ual evry phrase makes lifes hard highway bloom with flowers or drifts the snow enow across their ways we make their summer moke make their spring their winter autumn everything the passing stranger may not hear or stranger hearing may not heed but when your word cuts some gome one bear for endless days some heart beart may bleed now many know the torture of the knife that stubs stabs in hands they hey love love rives gives no license friendship right to hurt because they hey love us so BO but greater duty more delight to guard from rounds the ones we know kind not to travelers alone hut but in our house and to our own ic by mcclure clure New newspaper paper syndicate |
