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WHISPERING TONGUES
BY
HOMER GREENE
New York
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Publishers.
Copyright, 1902,
By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
TO
Prof. William Wells, LL.D.
KNOWN AND LOVED BY MANY GENERATIONS OF UNION
COLLEGE STUDENTS AS “BILLY WELLS,” THIS
LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY
INSCRIBED
“Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth;
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.”
But whispering tongues can poison truth;
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.”
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.