TAKE CARE OF YOUR WORDS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7, 20 February 1908, Page 37

TAKE CARE OF YOUR WORDS.

Do you iknow, little maid, when you open your^ mouth, - „ That away to the east, to the .west, north and south, On the wings ;of the wind, just like bees or like birds, ' . Fly the .tone of your voice and the sound cJt your words ? jDo you know, Jjittle maid, that your mouth is the door, p All the words you will say, all you have sai-a before, Are imprisoned within ? Some are sweet, pleasant words, Which, when they get out, wall sing like • the birds. There are .others so cross that they no one can please, And when they get out, will sing like thebees. I Watch them close, little maid ! When cross^woras stir about, Shut the door right up tight, and don't let ! them get out. .