SECRET THOUGHTS.

I hold it true that thoughts are things

Endowed with bodies, breath, and wings,

And that we send them forth to fill

The world with good results — or ill.

That which we call our secret thought

Speeds to the earth’ s remotest spot,

And leaves its blessings or its woes

Like tracks behind it as it goes.

It is God’ s law. Remember it

In your still chamber as you sit

With thoughts you would not dare have known,

And yet make comrades when alone.

These thoughts have life; and they will fly

And leave their impress by-and-by,

Like some marsh breeze, whose poisoned breath

Breathes into homes its fevered breath.

And after you have quite forgot

Or all outgrown some vanished thought,

Back to your mind to make its home,

A dove or raven, it will come.

Then let your secret thoughts be fair;

They have a vital part and share

In shaping worlds and molding fate —

God’ s system is so intricate.