The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1917-12-06
A Plea For The Sighted Ones
selected by Robert Baxter,
Hyrum, Utah


Ladies, whenever you lead the way,
Choose not always the gallant and gay, /
But sometimes seek for the hand of one !
Whose merriest days, it seems gone
Your fair white hand will not be disgraced !
If it is in that of veteran" placed ,
1t will not injure your fame whit,
And should not lessen your pleasure bit. :. "a
You should not slight his time-worn face,
Though he dances not with finished grace;
You will gain the love of the good and kind,
And that will be advantage, you'll find. |
He has been young like you, day. "a,
In honor his years may have passed away;
He has bravey faced the storms of life. i
His those of unequal strife; d,
He will bless your effort his heart to cheer
And it may prevent indignant tear. ---.
The youthful crowd wait awhile
Till the face of care assumes a smile;
When only part claim all the joy
The pleasure of some it must destroy;
The spirit laments DER memories past.
And gloom DER remaining life is cast;
Then all should graciously try to spare
mite of attention to each there
" THl
Somewhere at times all may meet -
In public halls the street
One who had been by vice decoyed
Whose bright hopes destroyed.
Perhaps the drunkard's cup was the bait,
Which lured him to distinctions gate;
Unguarded words deeds of shame
May have cast black odium his name.
1t may be female deceived,
BY honeyed lips she had believed,
Then left, abandoned to her fate,
Crushed under burning shame and hate;
Whose hopes and aims pure,
As many whose virtue seems secure;
But many, who never were tempted prate
And brag of their immaculate state,
Nhn ,,ipht
Had they been tempted equally.
OF her maddening wrongs she cannot speak,
For scaldng tears and burning cheek
She is cast aside, in contempt, to die,
Or harden in crime and the world defy
She is spurned and Stunned in every place.
While her spoiler walks with unblushing' face;
He is welcomed around with the blandest smiles.
With his black heart filled with hellish wiles.
Society, here. makes a horrid mistake
They murder lamb and cherish a snake;
A reptile who should for his crime atone,
In a way that would make him let others alone.
Crush not the victim of guile and deceit
But in paths of salvation direct her feet;
Let the seducer encounter the blame
And receive the reward of his deeds of shame
Through unwise illusions to unwise deeds,
There's many heart with bleeds. q
Does it seem best, with angry frown
The last faint rays of hope to drown?
Ignore the wretched always chde,
Refer to their errors, their griefs deride?
Twill only tear open the healing wound,
And tend to make vice still more abound.
While inflexible virtue endorses sin,
1t strives the erring from crime to win;
A cheerful good morning, a smile a nod
Would come to such hearts like blessing from God
my mistakes forgiven that poor heart woult
say,
O a
Some hearts will melt at gentle word
That cannot be conquered by dungeon or sword.
If all took this course 'twould be better by far,
Than scorning and frowning and proftess war;
Many eyes that look fierce sweet tears would bedn
Then each the true friend of humanity be,
And slight not repentance, wherever it be;
For all have their folles, short comngs and SINS
And will all seek mercy when judgment begins.
compromise to crime can be given,
But all that repent have promise of heaven
If the Judge high above, mercy could spare,
Our hopes of the future might sink in despair.
-Despse not, pass with Pharisee eyes,
The sinner, repentant, attempting to rise;
If we strive to wipe away misery's tears,
1t will bear reflection in after years.
William Clegg
Sprngve, Utah.