POETRY

Its words
ere ,ew' put deep and solemn, and they break
Flesh from the fount Of feeling. Pereiyal!
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Fiesh from the fount Of feeling -Percivai.


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PICTURES PRECAUTIONARY.
saw a panper in the street,


Begging from door 10 door,
A crust OF bread, poor wretch 10 eat
lie seldom asked for more.
said, ''od man, greve 10 think
" That begging's your employ"
"And why?" he said, 81 learned 10 drink
When was but boy"
saw man within the stocks,


And rueful was his look,
The boys We're pelting him with rocks,
Yet all he had 10 brook;
a laughing stock 10 alive think
To him there was no joy,
"And why 2" he said, 81 learned 10 drink
When was but boy"
saw man within the Jail,


All haggard and care worn,
His eye was sunk, his cheek was pale.
II made my spirits mourn;
And sympathy that seeks the link
OF others grief or joy,
Ask'd why he said, 81 learn'd to drink
When was but a boy!"
saw man within crowd,
Beneath the gallows tree,
The curses Of the lhrong were loud
Upon the felon. He
With look from which the soul void shrink
50 tend-llke 10 destroy,
Saidto the mob, 81 learned to drink
When was but a boy"
saw man down in the ditch,


J heard him groan with pain,
gave him soon helping hitch,


And raised him up again.
asked him, "why below the brink,


Why caught in such ploy 3"
He said, ''because learned to drink


When ! was but boy!"
saw man, one winters day,


Befrozen, stiff, and cold.
He's made for home, but missed the way,
Thus is the story told,
But whlskey was the cause, we think,
That did his life destroy:
heard them say, he learned to drink,
When he was but boy.
And is il thus, IwofuI said,
OF drinking this the end?
My very heart within me bled


| said, ''now heaven defend
My own dear child from ruins brink,
While this, at least my JOY
Whate'r betide, he learned TO drink
Not, when he was boy"