Words are mighty, words are living: Serpents with their ven… - Adelaide Anne Procter

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Words are mighty, words are living: Serpents with their venomous stings, Or bright angels, crowding round us, With heaven's light upon their wings: Every word has its own spirit, True or false, that never dies; Every word man's lips have uttered Echoes in God's skies.

Adelaide Anne Procter

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Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet, the eldest daughter of the poet Bryan Procter.

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Pen Names: Mary Berwick

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Kind hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.

Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, And my fingers wandered idly Over the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing, Or what I was dreaming then; But I struck one chord of music, Like the sound of a great Amen.

I do not ask that flowers should always spring Beneath my feet I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet.

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