THINK twice before you mail the note in which you give your anger vent, in which you recklessly devote yourself to skinning some poor gent. For doubtless when your anger cools, you'll kick your spine up through your hat, and say, "I was the prince of fools to send a man such rot as that!" Think twice before you pass along the scandal that you heard last night; you may do some good man a wrong that years of effort can't set right. And though the story true may seem, why rob a neighbor of his goat? From your own eye remove the beam, before you reach for t'other's mote. Think twice before you jaw your wife; there was a time, some years ago, when you declared you'd make her life as cheerful as a picture show. Alas, she took you at your word, as damsels do, and always did; and all her married years she's heard her husband yawping through his lid. Think twice before you do a thing your soul refuses to indorse; for every wicked act will bring the certain penalty, remorse! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BE STRONG by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG by JOHN DRYDEN MOTHER AND CHILD (WAR VICTIMS) by EVELYN D. BANGAY THE COMING OF THE SNOW by MARION L. BERTRAND JERUSALEM by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD ODE FOR AN AGRICULTURAL CELEBRATION by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A CHAIN TO WEAR by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |