Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COUNSEL, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: I am hardly afraid
Last Line: They have grown.
Subject(s): Advice; Sympathy; Empathy


I AM hardly afraid—
But I wonder if you,
Who have lived in the world so much longer than I,
Would give me the lift of a good word or two,
As it were,
Passing by?

For life has a way,
Upsetting to some,
Of leaving her problems all over the scene
And then just pretending to be deaf and dumb
When you ask
What they mean—

And there's this about words—
Be they knowledge or guess--
They roam through the mind with a life of their own
And, meeting them sometimes in moments of stress,
One finds
They have grown.





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