Words are deeds. The words we hear <br />May revolutionize or rear <br />A mighty state. The words we read <br />May be a spiritual deed <br />Excelling any fleshly one, <br />As much as the celestial sun <br />Transcends a bonfire, made to throw <br />A light upon some raree-show. <br />A simple proverb tagged with rhyme <br />May colour half the course of time; <br />The pregnant saying of a sage <br />May influence every coming age; <br />A song in its effects may be <br />More glorious than Thermopylae, <br />And many a lay that schoolboys scan <br />A nobler feat than Inkerman.<br /><br />William Charles Wentworth<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/words-6/
