Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet
To spin your wordy fabric in the street;
While you read more

Stop not, unthinking, every friend you meet
To spin your wordy fabric in the street;
While you are emptying your colloquial pack,
The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back.

Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!

Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!

But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.

But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south
With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;
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And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south
With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth;
Four things greater than all things are--
Women and Horses and Power and War.

With vollies of eternal babble.

With vollies of eternal babble.

What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?

What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?

Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!

Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!

It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!

It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!

Whose talk is of bullocks.

Whose talk is of bullocks.