Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.

In these lines Wilcox advances a characteristic late‑19th‑century “mind-cure” or New Thought idea: spoken affirmation helps shape lived reality. The imperative “Say you are well” treats language as performative—words are not merely descriptions but instruments that can summon health and wholeness. The second line adds a religious guarantee, presenting God as the power that ratifies and fulfills the affirmation (“hear your words and make them true”). The couplet thus fuses self-help psychology with devotional faith, suggesting that optimism and belief are not naïve but spiritually efficacious, and that despairing speech can become a self-fulfilling prophecy in the opposite direction.