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Title: "Blasts" from The Ram's Horn
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Poetry
Publisher: Chicago, The Ram's Horn Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ted lives and guilts deep stains, Of mis-directed energies, of talents flung away, Of mental agonizing pains, of physical decay. The youth who started in lifes fightWith courage high and young hopes bright;His fathers joy; his mothers pride;Perchance upon your bed has diedDisgraced, degraded in his prime;Wrecked on the fatal rocks of crime. Maybe a murderer has lainWith bursting heart and frenzied brain,And seen upon your walls so whiteHis gory victim through the night.Till, with his deadly terrors yellYou 11 ring and echo, dismal cell. You may have held a man whose name For honor once had goodly fame, By all respected and loved well: Yet in his gray old age he fell, And perhaps at thot of happier years The floor was wet by his hot tears. The thiefs pale corpse, the murderers yeli,The old mans tears, O dreary cell,Seem hovering, floating through my gloomLike ghosts around some haunted tomb;While in my ears the days last bellRe-echoed like a funeral knell. Blasts From The Rams Horn 219
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The Devils Chariot. THE DEVIL ON EARTH, The devil drives the man who swears. The devil smiles when he meets a Chris-tian with a long- face. The devil is never kept away from: church by bad weather. The devil walks beside the man who goesto church with a long- face. The man who loves the devil in thislife will love him in the next. The devil can cause us trouble, but hecant keep us from taking it to God. When the devil comes to an empty mindhe is sure of a place to stay all night. The devil is always throwing darts atthe man who shapes his conduct by thegolden rule. DROPS OF HONEY. Beauty in the heart writes its name onthe face. When our friends leave us God can comevery close. Grateful content is a good sauce to servewith any dinner. Whoever improves his opportunities willsoon be improved by them. If God sends us a rod, let us ask him tomake it blossom and bear fruit. If you. are not a happy Christian some-thing will happen if you try to be a usefulone. The man who enters the straight

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