PEARLS IN VERSE.[B]
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PEARLS IN VERSE.[B]
Be the matter what it may, Always speak the truth. If at work, or if at play, Always speak the truth.
Do your best, your very best, And do it every day. Little boys and little girls, That is the wisest way.
Little children, love each other, Never give another pain, If your brother speak in anger, Answer not in wrath again.
Early to bed and early to rise, Make men healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Suppose your task, my little man, Is very hard to get? Will it make it any easier For you to sit and fret? Then wouldn't it be wiser Than waiting like a dunce, To go to work in earnest, And learn the thing at once?
Speak the truth, and speak it ever, Cost it what it will; He who hides the wrong he did, Does the wrong thing still.
To do to others as I would That they should do to me, Will make me honest, kind, and good, As children ought to be.
When mother says, "Do this," or "that," Don't say, "What for?" and "Why?" But let her hear your gentle voice Say, "Mother dear, I'll try."