Thoughts
Myra Viola Wilds
c.1880 to c.1935
Track 1
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Catch your thoughts and hold them tightly,
What kind of thoughts now, do you carry
Matters not how great in fancy,
Is no better than his thoughts.
Or what deeds of skill you've wrought;
Or neglected, gone astray?
Purge them, scourge them, burnish brightly,
Let each one an honor be;
Are they bright and lofty visions,
In your travels day by day
Then in love set each one free.
Man, though high may be his station,
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