BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 91, 1 June 1877, Page 3

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.

In speaking of a person's faults, Pray don't forget your own ; Remember those with homes of glass, Should seldom throw a stone ; If we have nothing else to do But talk of those who sin, 'Tis better we commence at home, And from that point begin. We have no right to judge a man, Until he's fairly tried ; Should we not like his company, We know the world is wide. Some may have faults—and who has not?--The old as well as young ; Perhaps we may, for aught we know, Have fifty to their one. I'll tell you of a better plan, And find it works full well; To try my own defects to care . Before of others tell; And though I sometimes hope to be No worse than somo I know, My own short-comings bid me let The faults of others go. Then let us all, when we commence To slander friend or foe, Think of the harm one word may do To those we little know. Eemember curses, sometimes, like Our chickens, " roost at home ;" Don't speak of others' faults until We have none of our own.