Yes, I have a thousand tongues

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Yes, I have a thousand tongues (1895) is a brief, enigmatic poem from The Black Riders that dramatizes the soul's struggle to speak truth amid the "thousand" voices of doubt and deception. "And of these none are combating the echo; / For it is a survey that echoes."
Author Stephen Crane 

Yes, I have a thousand tongues,
And nine and ninety-nine lie.
Though I strive to use the one,
It will make no melody at my will,
But is dead in my mouth.