Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1866-09-27
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A geptfpnq eo4versiag with a lady friend, q
short time since, claimed that be eopld parodize
on the hoop question any verse that she might
choose 70 repeat. She aecordIhgfy rehearsal
The 6ilowiiig verse fsoIi the nold Sexton. .o~ u
"Nigh to agEaye thptiwas, newly madeiuElH
Leaped sexton old on his eaFth-worn spade.
His work was done, afd he paused 10 Pwaits u
Thefanersl fraiaiin the open gatei;ii gipJGibo
III 5slIi 9i aey gone dsysl y EGs b hs
And these words casnb from ills ifps so ihiu, g
4 gather them in ] gather them in !,'
Whereupon the graceless fellow took his pen
Gil, aud thus wrote upon scrap Of papor lying
by: .'u
s'Nigh te,s shurdh that was newly made a.ii
Stood lady fair and thus she said,
Too bad, too bad--I here must wait -h'he!.
WlIle thexrmeasure tue brepdth f.this open gate:
All lis only nine by six see,
Too narrow, too narrow, alas for me; A"' II.
And she sighed from her qnivering lips 60 thin
-Tsq !sH5AIl 4li -Li..I III Ena1-t 1eirI =
lsd, suii.LiaaiA EloqaeAces. noiI,uss
, Paul Denton, Methodist preacher in Texas,
advertised barbecue, with better lianor tlIan
usual furnished, When the people had assem-
bled, q desperate in the crowd cried out: <iMr.
Paul Denton, your. reverence has lied. You not
only promised us a barbecue, but better liquor.
Where is the liquors., ""There, Z" answered. tile
missionaEy'in tones of thunder, and pointing his
motionless finger at.the matchless double spring
gushing up in two strong columns, with a sound
like shout of joy; from the bosom of the earth
"There, he repeated, with look as terrible as
lightning, (whilehs enemy actually trembled
on his feet, ::'there 'is the lqpor, which God,
the Eternal, bFews for his children
s'Not In the simmering still, over smoky fires,
cooked with, poisonous gasses, aud surrounded
with the stencil of sickening odors aud rank cor
ruptioh, doth your Father in Heaven prepare the
PRECIOUS essence Of life, the pure cold, water; but
in the green glade and grassy dell, where the red
deer manders and tlse child loves, to play-tIieIe
God brews it; and down, low down in the deep
est valleys, where the rills sing; apd high upon
the tall lmountaih tops, where the storm Clouds
brood and the thunder clouds crash and always
far out on the wide, wide sea, where the hurri-
cane laOwls music, and the big waves roar the
chorus, sweeping the march of God--it is there
he brcws II, that beverage Of life+-hcalth giving
waite. ttt,...i -I.t! &tfut"y II -.
Everywhere it is thing of beauty cleaning
in the dew drop, singing iaq the; summer rain,
shining in the ice gem, till the trees all seem
iurhea to the living jewels spreading veil over
the setting sun, Or, "a, white gauze around the
midnight moon, sporting in the cataract; sleep
ing in the glazief, dancing in the hail shower;
folding its bright snow curtains softly about the
wintry world and weaving the many colored
iris, that sefaph's zonoiof the sky-Awhose warp
is rain drops Of earth, whose woof the sunbeam
Of Heaven, all checked over with celestial flow-
ers, by the mystic. hand of 'refraetion.i Still al
ways it is bcautiful-thnt blessed life water =.
No poison bubbles on its brink; no madness or
murder; no blood stains its liquid giass; pale
widows and starving orphans find no tears iu its
depths, no druhkard's shrieking ghost from the
grave cursiiiain words Of eternal despair-Spe,lk
out my friend, would you exchange it for the
demons drink, alcohol?'' ..'' '.''
A shout like the roar of a. tempest answered,
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