--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Stephens, Evan collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 23 number: 2 published: 1919-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Stephens, Evan, "Speak Not the Harsh Word," *Improvement Era* 23, no. 2 (December 1919): 157–158.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2302unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2302unse start_page: 157 end_page: 158 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2302unse publication_year: 1919 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Speak Not the Harsh Word Speak Not the Harsh Word Words and Music by Evan Stephens. Slowly and lenderly. 1st and 2nd Tenor. 1 Let not the lips speak the harsh words, An - ger has 2. Let not the pen form the harsh words, An - ger may D.C. Wound not your lov'd ones with harsh words, Words you may m 1st and 2nd Bass. &&=£:: : g—g— g— irgzfe An - An - Words A tempo. ^mm Bit. ^m formed so un ^TB - kind Let not the heart feel the prompt you to write. Blot them all out if they're gore - ly re - gret.. Use in their places the Bit. A tempo. —*=P ger has formed so un - kind. ger may prompt you to write, you may sore - ly re - gret. — 1S8 IMPROVEMENT ERA Fine. '- fcC L tl_ p j I harsh words, Ban-ish them quick from the mind. writ - ten, Cast them a side out of sight. kind words, Kind words they'll never for get. Fine. a=r^ -* ^- y-p^ ?— ^ t ar Think how they'll wound when they're spo-ken, Some one full If to cor - rect some one err - ing, Strong terms you -A- —a -«q 1. An Some Strong -N ijgjj^ 2E* dear to your heart, Think of the friendship that's need to re prove. Soft - en their harshness by Pi P N- ( -^&e^ ^ 1/ one full dear to your heart, terms you need to re - prove, -A- i\r ( [£-*-H * \> f ^ brok - en, Killed by the pain they im - part. Ah B.C. choos-ing, Words full of mer-cy and love. Ah £ W • I Killed by the pain they impart, Ah! Words full of mer - cy and love. Ah!