FAMILY HISTORY: POETRY Collection written by Elsie Strawn ARMSTRONG
  
  File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Les Howard Strawn
  
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          ANGRY WORDS
  
  Angry words are sometimes spoken,
      In a rash and thoughtless hour,
  Brightest links of life are broken
      By their deep, insidious power.
  
  Hearts inspired by warmest feeling,
      Ne'er before by anger stirred,
  Sometimes rent, past human healing,
      By a single angry word.
  
  Bitter drops of care and sorrow,
      Bitter poison drops are they,
  Weaving for the coming morrow,
      Saddest memories of today.
  
  Angry words! O, Let them never
      From the tongue unbridled slip,
  May the hearts best impulse ever
      Check them, ere they soil the lip.