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A Motto : Say Little! Serve All! Pass On!

James Boyd

SAY LITTLE: winds the peaceful sea disturb,

And forests rend.

Give answer soft: venomed invective curb,

And discord end.

With grace, like sweet upon the bitter sprent,

Let the unpalatable truth be blent.

SERVE ALL: the Master’s plaudit to obtain,

Who Son Divine

A Slave became, and shall a Slave remain—

This mind be thine.

From this example let not empty pride

Thy pure appreciative soul divide.

PASS ON: A pilgrim on thy heavenward way,

Nor seek a name

Where others headlong rush into the fray

For worldly fame:

Await thy Lord’s “well done” in quietness,

And not by words but actions love express.