The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-03-08

Temperance Asso..at.Oa " Raiiand, F.lcs.a,y Ii
1870.
current is flowing it has long rolled its tides
From dram shop to drunkard incessant 1t glides
Mid forest and glebe and garden and meadow
1t moves ever on, but always in shadow.
In gloom is its course from its own erhaiation.,
For freely it yields all due liquor rstions:
And oil who're sHoat are siszed with its vspor.
Exhibiting thus the most astonishing capers.
Its channels as winding a. our Otter Creek
Or as ever has grown the crookedest stick.
Alas it is worse than the Stygian stream,
About which the old Mythologies dream
Its aow is as dark and its banks are as dresr
As the shades and specters of the region Of Fear
Its fountains are many, some large and som,
small,
But alike in one feature-Death's In them all -
Ago. Death in form from which mortsls ma
shriHk,
brink
Aud death that's, replete with shame and with
pangs,
Where souls ever feel It's vsnomous fangs
Did say death was In them Yea. double and
quick.
That death Is augmented by sztsas.cas base trick
And the old river Of Rum with poison now flows,
The vilest and wickedest compound of woes
The springs that supply the Cow Of this stream,
Are more numerous far than NEST of us dream
| vTa fht ht,,L H.. g "a. l..
Where home be found for each travelling
band
A home tho alas not the InoTaiist's heaven.
Yet in numbers, four, and We thus And them even
! squad,
! Why, then, We should ind the 0umter was odd
And were We to add sill of cellar and shanty
More figures wo'd End exceedingly handy
Yet others VIC ween, where domestieity iweils,
By use Of the home made the foul water. smell
What wouder, with fountains thus copious, So
And send through our village its currents of i'll
And thus many heart. with wretchedness fill
Our bailitz, 'tis true, have sought these to Lail
out,
! --A~ tH"" SAhPiy thiS etio W oi drought
Alas : for their tnessurss-thsir measures are
As we'll air the world with a bit Vi q s4uall
As we'll tame khrew with a shake Of the head,
Or from putty and plaster make premium bread
They bail out small one, and then bail again,
They clean cat the dogs kennel but rot the wolf.
dem
squire Lofty soes tree, bat pool pa, hnd. So the
Jug"
The squire grows ths fattes foi this polite hug;
The law-thus enforced, he likes it full we'll,
To every one now, he'll be able to sell
Such policy may be tho't pretty shrewd,
But most Of US think it decidedly crude
And can't greatly disturb the rum aging brood.
Nor in this effect much permanent good.
For. despite all such efforts. the river, IL dow.
And rolls ever OLA perditioh .f woes
But one thing e'or makes il unlike other etrearns
Fl" when drysst the weather--the fullest il
CLEANS.
Aud thus, while all others arc lows va aote.
This overfows, then, and runs down In thu throat
Nor ncedth the many on salt nsh to dine
To drink, st such times, Of this river OF wine
But this stream ever ehsngeth its natur. along.
As 1t wendeth its course thrc hunsaitys throng
Aud. MS washing the bsuks of tissue aud h.ne
lts spell ia "a potent as a tropical zone.
1t touches the life and death is Away.
Tho that life hath been the most robust aud gay
And health fades as auiekly a. light fades away
When sunbosms Of brightness forsaksth the day
And in plaes of good health, in protean forms
Diseases engendsr their 6tfuiest forms
The bright eye Of genius Is palsd by it, touch.
The vigorous virtue then tsksth = erutch.
It turnsth that eye to s1<aas.jui red,
And givsth the tipplsr load 10 his head
IL touchsth tho shin With rum -eolorsd hue.
And nsketh its victim beauty to view
Now. anon, they bloat up like au air balloon;
And wsddis about like q duck or = loon;
Or slss. ia their bloat they meet with a balL,
And dry up and look like an old mullen .tsik -
With wounds without ssuss, like patchs. of pias
| tor,
They look like E" potatoss,' with rst for s,sst-r
Ii touehsth ths hat and lis minus top
With the broken rim dangling with many d mop
While the hair stands aloft like grass on d roof,
While the inhabitants thence are taking
p,o5 -
Ur else. IN rare ringiets it noweth about.
Like its stag ring owner ID homeward Route.
1t toucheth the At..i, and it turns il a. sour
As = tub of Dutch krsut, and that la an hour
lttouehsth the mind with its vsnonous tide,
And DO longer its thots the footsteps can guide
Ihs light Of the soul goes out in the man
Twas sXtinguished by rum wherever 1t ran
The garner, whenss once tanned the genus =
soul,
Ihs devil nov uses a bin fsr his eoal
The fuels ignited BY the Spirit Of Wine,
And every woe, earthly, in his spirit combine
II toaeheth his wealth, and so.n Povsrtys pae
VI dsmoniae wolves howl eioss Oh hb track,
And with their kindly gianees look in through th
pane.
Or howl al the iovf which he sLutteth ia vain.
IL touches his home. .cnee 81 peaceful aui brisL,
The center Of comfort, of joy and delight.
And all OF these dee away like birds frou, storm
And th' substance Of beauty is desolate form.
The paint u hs donicils il weareth away,
While captoard- hang loosely and shingles awry
Aud tho rain drop. descending, no hindraue
me-t,
And SO with shower-ssth doth our topper greet.
Oh ii down his throat might these love drop d
heaven
Wash cut the dark stains int-nperascs ha. given
But yainly We iustrate the eutiele clean
~ ioag as the human ia lustful aud mean.
The bricks froui hi chimney snon f.ii With
spat,
While the swn.r resl- '.oand With A brick 10 hi
hat"
And then the 'iis dVoa, w notig.ge aud pawn,
Soon hi1isslf washes out, ss debris iorIo,a;
! While his wife snd his chiidren. once dear To hi
soul.
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