THE CURSED BOWL.
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asked a convict in his chains, as


As down his cheeks the tears did roll,
What locked him up-what fred his brains


His answer was, the cursed BOWL
asked man who went abroad, ts I


TO write his name on fame's high scroll
What sent him back without reward 2


He answered thus-'the cursed bowl'
asked maid whose cheerless eye,
Was moist with tears fresh from the soul
What crushed her hopes; what broke the tie;


The bowl she said, the cursed BOWL
asked a wife-a drunkard's wife fn


Why she trembled and appeared so droll 2
She wildly said, % spare my life!' SIT
A maniac's lips breathed- -'curse the bowl
lasked mother, as her children strayed


Beyond the reach of her control, .ftg.
What most she feared-she quickly said,


'God save them from the cursed BOWL
asked the boy in rags to tell me WHY, a7


He begged his way from door to door
Gust then his sire came staggering by)


The cursed bowl ----' heard no more.
Then friends of Temperance, awake,


And your banners to the breese unroll-
Shrink not. but ever strive to break,


And dash TO earth-'the cursed bowl
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