The poem advises letting insults and unkind words pass without response. It suggests great people do not stoop to answer petty things, but instead pass them by with a smile or twinkle in their eye. While such words may sting initially, it is better in the end to meet them with a smile and let them pass.

1. Let It
Pass
T great folks never stoop
ruly
T answer petty1 things;
o
The unkind word, the bitter cut
That rankles deep and stings.
They are too big to notice them,
They simply pass them by,
And even with a smile sometimes
Or a twinkle in the eye.
Ha, ha! You’re
so clumsy!
I will not
stoop to answer
petty things. …
1
petty: something with little importance or value

2. For they have found that after all
’T better in the end
was
T meet it with a smile, and then,
o
Just let it pass, my friend.
Hi, Troy.
Want to play
with me?
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