View source for Nay, Speak No Ill

Original title: 'Speak No Ill'

=Sheet Music=
==Using the tune '[[Kindly Word]]' as seen in [[Relief Society Song Book, 1919|<i>Relief Society Song Book</i>, 1919]], no. 75==
*[[media:075_Nay, Speak No Ill.pdf|PDF]]
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*[[media:075_Nay, Speak No Ill.ly|LilyPond]]
*Copyright: [[public domain]]
*Source: [[Relief Society Song Book, 1919|<i>Relief Society Song Book</i>, 1919]], no. 75
*Contributor: [[User:Veramet|Veramet]] 01:13, 5 October 2010 (MDT)
==External Sheet Music Links==
*[http://www.lds.org/churchmusic/detailmusicPlayer/index.html?searchlanguage=1&searchcollection=1&searchseqstart=233&searchsubseqstart=%20&searchseqend=233&searchsubseqend=ZZZ Flash printable/playable/transposable sheet music from lds.org/churchmusic]

=Tunes=
*[[Kindly Word]], by [[Unknown Composer]], ca. 1891<ref>Deseret Sunday School Song Book, 1894 (probably the 1891 edition, too), p. 66</ref>
**Copyright: [[public domain]]

=Lyrics=
*Poet: [[Charles Swain]]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=-Vk-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA92#v=onepage&q&f=false Poems of Charles Swain, 1857, p. 92]</ref> (1801–1874), ca. 1845<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=UcdLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA829&dq=%22nay+speak+no+ill%22&hl=en&ei=DsGqTKuHE5L2swOIyqW8Aw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFIQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22nay%20speak%20no%20ill%22&f=false <i>The Literary gazette and journal of the belles lettres, arts, sciences, &c</i>, 1845, p. 829–830]</ref>
*Copyright: [[public domain]]
==External Lyrics==
*[http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Curriculum/music.htm/hymns.htm/special%20topics.htm/233%20nay%20speak%20no%20ill.htm#JD_Hymns.233 Lyrics from LDS.org] (same as from [[the 1985 LDS hymnal]])
==Lyrics from [[Relief Society Song Book, 1919|<i>Relief Society Song Book</i>, 1919]], no. 75==
<pre>1. Nay, speak no ill, a kindly word
Can never leave a sting behind;
And oh, to breathe each tale we’ve heard,
Is far beneath a noble mind.
Full oft a better seed is sown
By choosing thus the kinder plan,
For, if but little good is known,
Still let us speak the best we can.

2. Give me the heart that fain would hide—
Would fain another’s faults efface:
How can it please the human pride
To prove humanity but base?
No, let us reach a higher mood—
A nobler estimate of man,
Be earnest in the search for good,
And speak of all the best we can.

3. Then speak no ill, but lenient be
To other’s failings as your own;
If you’re the first a fault to see,
Be not the first to make it known.
For life is but a passing day,
No lip may tell how brief its span;
Then, O the little time we stay,
Let’s speak of all the best we can.</pre>

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