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[aid] => mick
[title] => The mouth, the tongue and the word
[time] => 2005-01-01 12:12:16
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[bodytext] => Your tongue, if it speaks the right, rightly is the greatest gain Amidst goodly things, it stands alone, that by virtue you obtain Since on words from mouth, for any gain or loss in life you depend Its important that from careless slip in speech thyself defend Its your speech that holds spell-bound the listening ear And make those who have not heard, desire to hear Adapt the words you speak, to various listeners’ state That claims no higher virtue, and no more gain surely great Speak out your speech, which once past dispute None can utter any speech, which makes yours refute Among others words, charming and seize the listeners’ sense And these words make you wise of persons of spotless excellence If you be mighty in word, of unforgetful mind, of fearless speech It is hard for any hostile power, which can overreach And for listening, swiftly the whole world will even gather round When a weighty theme, such people of mighty speech propound Those people who cannot utter even faultless words plain Their tongues itch with more words, people`s ears to pain Like flowers that add no fragrance to blooming garland bound Are people who having acquired lore to others` ears cannot expound [comments] => 2 [counter] => 310 [topic] => 19 [informant] => girish [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => InspirationalPoems )
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