BE NOT HASTY.
J. Tuxow,
Be not hasty, O my brother, Curb awhile tbe angry tongue That vrould seek to wound another, Though he be, perchance, in wrong ! All have erred, of every station — Thou canst not, my friend) be free ! Speaks it not in palliation, That our nature* like agree P Hasty words, my friend, are often Spoken, that we ne'er forget, In the heat and flow of passion, Leaving year* of sad regret ! Tossing us upon the billows Of an ever angry sea ; Giving unrest to our pillows, Where alone repose should be 1 Be not hasty, then, but spare him — So shalt thou his goodness prove ; Take him to thy heart and wear him In pure charity and love ! Then his soften'd glanoe shall greet theo, And his hand be fixed in thine, Firm, immoveable— to meet thee In a love supreme, divine !
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North Otago Times, Volume VI, Issue 125, 12 July 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)
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146BE NOT HASTY. North Otago Times, Volume VI, Issue 125, 12 July 1866, Page 1 (Supplement)
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