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WORDS AND DEEDS

They do the least
Who talk the most:
Whose good designs
Are all their boast!
For words are dew.

They do the most
Whose lives possess
The sterling stamp
Of righteousness;
For deeds are true.

And if the heart
Be pure and good,
The life will be
Just what it should—
Not dew, but true.
—Selected.

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— June, 1884 —