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"Poems / Mary E. Tucker [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD1998.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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KINDNESS.
ONE single word of heartfelt kindness,Oft is worth a mine of gold, —Yet how oft, we, in our blindness,The most precious wealth withhold.
Like soft dews on thirsting flowers,It revives the drooping heart;And its magical blest showersIs the sours best healing art.
Oh! however sad and lonelyLife's dark, sterile path may be,One, one single kind word onlyCauseth all its gloom to flee.
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How can we know of the troublesThat must rack another's soul,All must know that empty bubblesOf Life's cares o'er all heads roll.
Then forgiving and forgetting,Let for aye the kind word fall,Only our own sins regrettingWith a charity for all.
Then this life will be a pleasure, When we all speak words of love,For we know our earthly measureWill be more than filled above.
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