Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 29
1923Often he speaks who never is stillWith words that win no faith;The babbling tongue, if a bridle it find not,Oft for itself sings ill.Free to read · Built for close study
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Often he speaks who never is stillWith words that win no faith;The babbling tongue, if a bridle it find not,Oft for itself sings ill.Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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