The World's temperance reciter [ed. and partly written] by J. MalinsJoseph Malins |
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B. W. RICHARDSON Band of Hope beer bless Blue bottle bowl BOY TO GO C. H. SPURGEON CHARLES MACKAY child Cloth boards CONNAUGHT RANGERS cried crime curse dead dear death demon door drink-seller drunk my last drunkard's eawer evil eyes face Faith father fear fight gilt give glad God's hand head hear heard heart Illustrated Joseph Livesey JOSEPH MALINS Knight Templars ladies land last glass license lips liquor lives look Lord mid shot mother never night o'er Packets Paper covers pledge poor pray prayer round shame smile song sorrow soul Story strong drink sure T. H. EVANS Tale tears teetotal tell TEMPERANCE PUBLICATIONS Templars thee there's thing thou thy brother to-day Tonic Sol-fa twas Union Band voice vote WILLIAM HOYLE wine words
Popular passages
Page 53 - Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Page 53 - God, Give Us Men! God, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Page 96 - Slept in the sunshine and dropped from the sky And everywhere gladdened the landscape and eye. I have eased the hot forehead of fever and pain; I have made the parched meadows grow fertile with grain; I can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill, That ground out the flour and turned at my will. I can tell of manhood debased by you, That I have lifted and crowned anew.
Page 96 - And sent the train from the iron rail ; I have made good ships go down at sea, And the shrieks of the lost were sweet to me, For they said, ' Behold how great you be ! Fame, strength, wealth, genius before you fall, For your might and power are over all.' Ho ! ho ! pale brother," laughed the wine, " Can you boast of deeds as great as mine?
Page 117 - You are crazy ! " a visitor said ; I flung a bottle at his head.
Page 83 - I'm most loth to spare, That your Bacchanal chorus would never ring there. Traverse the desert, and then ye can tell What treasures exist in the cold, deep well ; Sink in despair on the red, parched earth, And then ye may reckon what Water is worth.
Page 186 - And merry on the brain ; They say it stirs the sluggish blood. And dulls the tooth of pain. Ay — but within its glowing deeps A stinging serpent, unseen, sleeps. Its rosy lights will turn to fire, Its coolness change to thirst ; And, by its mirth, within the brain A sleepless worm is nursed. There's not a bubble at the brim That does not carry food for him.
Page 96 - From the heads of kings I have torn the crown, From the heights of fame I have hurled men down-; I have blasted many an honored name ; I have taken virtue and given shame ; I have tempted the youth with a sip, a taste That has made his future a barren .waste.
Page 83 - WISE, wine, thy power and praise Have ever been echoed in minstrel lays ; But Water, I deem, hath a mightier claim To fill up a niche in the temple of Fame.
Page 112 - Who dogs the steps of the toiling saint, and digs the pits for his feet ? Who sows the tares in the field of time wherever God sows his wheat ? The Devil is voted not to be, and of course the thing is true ; But who Is doing the kind of work the Devil alone should do...