The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-03-20
w. C.. L. U.
CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES or
THE BRooKHAvEN w. G. L. U.
A SENTIMENT FOR THE US.

yOre,
When FASTENED to welcome your ring
ut the door,
For | trusted that he wLo stood waiting
me then,
Was the brightest, the truest, the noblest
of men.
Your lips on my own when they printed
farewell"
Had never been soiled by the beverage
of HE'LL"
But they come to me now with Bacchanal
sign
And the lips that touch liquor can never
touch mine.
/ think of that night IN the garden alone,
VIXEN in whispers You told me your heart
was my own,
That your love in the future should faith
full be,
Unshared by another, kept only for me.
Oh sweet to my soul is the memory still,
Of the lips that met mine, when they
murmured Il WILL"
But now to their pressure no more they in
cline,
For the lips that touch liquor can never
touch mine.
oh, John! how it crushed me, when first
in your face
The pen of the "rum fiend" had written
disgrace"
And turned me in silence and tears from
that breath
All poisoned and foul from the chalice of
death.
1t shattered the hopes had treasured to
last
1t darkened the future and clouded the
past;
1t shattered my idol, and ruined the
shrine,
For the lips that touch liquor can never
touch mine.
l loved you-oh! dearer than language
can tell,
And you saw it, you proved it, you knew
1t too well;
But the man of my love was other than
Who now from the tap-room comes reel
ing to me,
In manhood and honor SO noble and
right
His heart was so true, and his genius so
bright
And his soul nnstained, unpolluted by
wine;
But the lips that touch liquor can never
touch mine.
You promised reform, but l trusted III
vain;
Your pledge was made but to be broken
again,
And the lover so false to his promise now,
Will not, as husband, be true to his vow.
The word must be spoken that bids you
depart
Though the effort to speak it should
shatter my heart;
Though in silence, with blighted affec-
tion pine,
touch mine.
If one spark in your bosom of virtue re-
main,
Go fan it with prayer, till it kindle again;
Resolved with "God helping" in future to
he
From wine and its follies unshackled and
free;
And when yon have conquered this foe Of
your soul
In manhood and honor beyond his control,
This heart will again beat responsive to
thine,
And the lips free from liquor be welcome
to mine. Anonymous.
There are twenty National w. c.
Il. US.
Remember the State Convention
meets at Oxford, May End.
The Union will meet tomorrow
evening at Mrs. Benefits.
"What do thou knowest not now,
but thou shall know hereafter"
The Union has postponed its
anniversary celebration until April.
The w. C. Il. U. will never give up
until it secures the Scientific Temper
ance Instruction bill.
The islands of the sea and South
American, are the only habitatiOns
unblest by w. c. 7. US footsteps.
If the Y's want "wOrk to do" let
them begin the Glover Mission
This is one of the most beautiful and
one of the most effective departments
of our temperance work.
Man is all-powerful in politics.
What then can woman accom-
plish for the temperance or any other
cause until the men are as painfully
and intelligently cOgnizant of exist
ing and impending evils as they are, or
until they themselves can vote for the