“Truth” from Poems (1896)

A setting of “Truth” from Poems (1896) by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911).

"...

Her clinging was a thing of dread;

Where'er she touched a fissure spread,

And he who'd breasted many a storm

Stood frowning there, a mangled form;

A Truth, dropped in the silent earth,

May seem a thing of little worth,

Till, spreading round some mighty wrong,

It saps its pillars proud and strong,

And o'er the fallen ruin weaves

The brightest blooms and fairest leaves."