1930 The Saloon in the Home

ROBERT. So he would. WILLIAM. Yes, I felt the gentleman was right when he said he was very glad he had signed the pledge. JOHN. Well, I'll try to keep my pledge. ROBERT. And so will I. WILLIAM. The longer we keep it the better, I'm sure. Recitations for Bands of Hope, 1859.

WHAT TO DRINK T HE lily drinks the sunlight, The hyacinth, heaven's blue; The peaches quaff the dawn-light, The pears the autumn noon, The apple-blossoms drink the rain And the first warm air of June. From all the earth's green basin, From the blue sky's sapphire bowl, No living thing of root or wing Partakes the deadly dole. I'll quaff the lily's nectar I'll sip the cowsli.:p's cup, . I'll drink the showers, the sun, the breeze, But never the poisoned cup.

The primrose drinks the dew, The cowslip sips the running brook,

Albe"an .Temperance R~citer, 1890.

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