THE EVILS OF A MISCHIEVOUS TONGUE.
Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.—Eccl. Apoc. xxviii. 8.
Tho’ millions, the sword of the warrior has slaughter’d,
While fame has the homicide’s eulogy rung:
Yet many more millions on millions are martyr’d;
Cut off by that cowardly weapon, the tongue.
One sword may be match’d by another as keen,
In battle the bold man a bolder may meet,