Wednesday, December 2, 2009

In Speaking of a Person's Faults

This is a poem my Nan Murphy used to recite to me. I was unable to find the author.

In speaking of a person's faults
please don't forget your own.
Remember those with homes of glass
should never throw a stone.
If we have nothing else to do
than talk of those who sin
it's better we commence at home
and from this point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
until he is fairly tried.
Should we not like his company
we know the world is wide.
Should have faults, but who have not
the old as well as the young.
Perhaps we man for ought we know
have fifty to their one.
Now let us all when we begin
to slander friend or foe.
Think of the harm one word can do
to those we little know.
Remember curses sometimes like
our chicken roost at home.
Please don't speak of another's faults
until you have none of your own.

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