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~ j. r. RocKwxIL
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"Rrnv. MI. Dramdrinker, how do you do
VfEsf Is psrdition's the matter with you
How did YOU come by that bruise on the head
WIN sro your eyes 80 internally red I


WHY do YOU mutter that in6del hymn


WIN do YOU nemble in every limb


Who has done this ?--let the reason be shown,
And Let the offender be pelted with stone !"


And the Dramdrinker said" II you listen to me,
You shall hear what you hear, and shall see what


you see.


al had father--the grave is his bed: N
had mother-she sleeps with the dead,
Freely wept when they left me alone,
But shed all my tears on their grave and their


stone:
planted willow--I planted yew,
And left them to sleep till the last trumpet blew
Fortune was mine, and mounted her car
Pleasure from virtue had beckoned me far
Onward went, like an avalanche down,
And the sunshine of fortune was changed to q


fown


Fortune was gone. took to my side
A young, and lovely, and beautiful bride
Her entreated with coldness and scorn,
Tarying back till the break Of the morn
Sighting her kindness, and mocking her fears
Casting blight on her tenderest years.
Sad and neglected and weary left her;
Sorrow and care of her reason bereh her.
Till, like star, when it falls from its pride,
She sunk on the bosom of mis'ry, and died
q had a child, and it grew like 4 vine
Fair as the rose Of Damascus, was mine;
Fair--and watched DER her innocent YOUTH
As an angel from heaven would watch over truth.
She grew like her mother, in feature and form
Her blue eye was languid, her cheek was too warm
Seventeen sunmers had shone on her brow
The seventeenth winter beheld her laid low!
Yonder they sleep in their graves, side by side,
u fathef--a mother-a daughter-a bride!
When they had left me, I stood here alone;
Nome Of my race or my kindred were known!
Friends all forsaken, and hope all departed
Sad and despairing, and desolate hearted
Feeling no kindness for ought that was human
Hated by man, and detested by woman
Bankrupt in fortune and ruined in name
Onward kept in the pathway Of shame;
And till this hour since my father went down,
My brow has but known a continual frown
I" Go to your children, and tell them the tale:
Tell them his cheek, too, was lividly pale;
Tell them his eye was all bloodshot and cold;
Tell them his purse was a stranger to gold;
Tell them he passed through the world they are in,
The victim Of sorrow and mis'y and sin
Tell them when ife's shameful conflicts were past,
In horror and anguish he perished at lasr!"