Speak Softly

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Title:     Speak Softly
Author: Thomas W. Talley [More Titles by Talley]

"Wus dat you spoke,
Or a fence rail broke?"
Br'er Rabbit say to de Jay
[50]W'en you don't speak sof',
Yō' baits comes off;
An' de fish jes swim away.

FOOTNOTE
[50] The last three lines of the rhyme was a superstition current among
antebellum Negroes.

[The end]
Thomas W. Talley's poem: Speak Softly

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