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If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
I had it from my father.
If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;
I had it from my father.
It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!
It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!
No season now for calm, familiar talk.
No season now for calm, familiar talk.
Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk!
His talk was like a stream which runs
With rapid change from rock to roses;
It slipped read more
His talk was like a stream which runs
With rapid change from rock to roses;
It slipped from politics to puns;
It passed from Mahomet to Moses;
Beginning with the laws that keep
The planets in the radiant courses,
And ending with some precept deep
For dressing eels or shoeing horses.
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.
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.
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.
Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!
Talk with a man out at a window!--a proper saying!
