Poems (Piatt)/Volume 1/Say the Sweet Words

by Sarah Piatt

SAY THE SWEET WORDS.

Say the sweet words, say them soon;
 You have said the bitter,—
Changed to tears, by this still moon
 You may see them glitter.

Say the sweet words soon, I pray—
 Mine is piteous pleading:
Haste to draw the steel away,
 Though the wound keep bleeding.