NEVER talk back! sich things is repperhensible; A feller only hurts hisse'f that jaws a man that's hot; In a quarrel, ef you'll only keep your mouth shet and act sensible, The man that does the talkin' 'll git worsted every shot! Never talk back to a feller that's abusin' you -- Jes' let him carry on, and rip, and snort, and swear; And when he finds his blamin' and defamin' 's jes' amusin' you, You've got him clean kaflummixed, -- and you want to hold him there! Never talk back, and wake up the whole community And call a man a liar, over Law, er Politics. -- You can lift and land him furder and with gracefuller impunity With one good jolt of silence than a half a dozen kicks! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MESSAGES by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON AFTER MUSIC by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY SONG OF THE SILENT LAND by JOHANN GAUDENZ VON SALIS-SEEWIS SOMETIME by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 82 by ALFRED TENNYSON THE GUERDON by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |