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William Wilsey Martin
Words
Year written: 1891
From 'Quatrains Life's Mystery, and Other Poems', written in the style of 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.'
I
Words are the stranded foam the sea-winds blew,
Or bloom-snow falling in the springing weeks;
Unless the character of him who speaks
Stand out, behind the words, as good and true!
II
Words are but feathers, bright or black or grey,
Upon the small winds' fingers borne and lost;
But actions are the great rocks—tempest cross'd,
Though fretted by a million storms, they stay.
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