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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TO MY DAUGHTER. ON HKH BIRTHDAY. Dear Fanny nine long years ago, While yet the morning sun was low, And rosy with the Eastern glow The landscape smil'd ? Whilst low'd the newly-wakened herds? Sweet as the early song of birds, I heard those first, delightful words, Thou hast a Child Along with that uprising dew Tears glisten'd in my eyes, though few, To hail a dawning quite as new To me, as Time: It was not sorrow?not annoy? But like a happy maid, though coy, With grief-like welcome even Joy Forestals its prime. So mayst thou live, dear many years, In all the bliss that life endears, Not without smiles, nor yet from tears Too strictly kept: When first thy infant littleness I folded in my fond caress, The greatest proof of happiness Was this?I wept. A SEA-TOTALLER. THE SHORT PLEDGE. I'll tell you what it is, said the President of the Social Glassites, at the same time mixing a fresh tumbler of grog?rather stiffer than the last ?for the subject of Temperance and Tea-totalism had turned up, and he could not discuss it with dry lips? I'll tell you what it is: Temperance isall very well, provided it's indulged in with moderation, and without injury to your health or business; but when it sets a man spouting, and swaggering, and flag-carrying, and tea-gardening, and dressing himself up like a play-actor, why he might as well have his mind unsobered with anything else. That's very true, said the Vice-president, ?a gentleman with a remarkably red nose. I have seen many Teatotal Processions, continued the President, and I don't hesitate to say, that every man and woman amongst them was more or less intoxicated? Eh, what? asked a member, hastily removing his cigar. Yes, intoxicated, I say, with pride...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217970457 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217970451 |
| Weight | 0.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.30 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 128 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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