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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384441" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In The Night</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the silent midnight watches,<br>When the earth was clothed in gloom,<br>And the grim and awful darkness<br>Crept unbidden to my room-<br>On the solemn, deathly stillness<br>Of the night, there broke a sound,<br>Like ten million wailing voices<br>Crying loudly from the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>From ten million graves came voices,<br>East and West, and North and South,<br>Leagues apart, and yet together<br>Spake they, e'en as with one mouth:<br>'Men and women! men and women!'<br>Cried these voices from the ground,<br>And the very earth was shaken<br>With the strange and awful sound-</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Ye who weep in selfish sorrow,<br>Ye who laugh in selfish mirth,<br>Hark! and listen for a moment<br>To the voices from the earth:<br>Wake and listen! ye who slumber,<br>Pause and listen! ye who feast,<br>To the warning of the voices<br>From the graves in West and East.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'We, the victims of a demon,<br>We, who one, and each, and all,<br>Can cry out before high heaven,<br>'We are slain by alcohol!'-<br>We would warn you, youths and maidens,<br>From the path that we have trod-<br>From the path that leads <br>to<br>ruin,<br>And away from peace and God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'We, the millions who have fallen,<br>Warn you from the ruddy glow<br>Of the wine in silver goblets,<br>For <br>destruction<br>lies below.<br>Wine and gin, and rum and brandy,<br>Whiskey, cider, ale, and beer,<br>These have slain us and destroyed us-<br>These the foes that brought us here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>''You are safe,' you say. Ah heaven!<br>So <br>we<br>said, and drank, and died.<br>'We are safe!' we proudly boasted,<br>Yet we sank down in the tide.<br>There is never any safety<br>From the snares of alcohol<br>For the youth who looks on liquor,<br>Tastes or touches it at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'We beseech you, men and women,<br>Fathers, mothers, sons, and wives,<br>To arise, and slay the demon<br>That is threatening dear ones' lives!<br>Do not preach of <br>moderation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To your children; for, alas!<br>There is not a foe more subtle<br>Than the fateful 'social glass.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Thoughtless mother, wife, or sister,<br>Dash that poison cup away!<br>He, the husband, son, or brother<br>Who so gaily sips to-day,<br>May to-morrow stagger homeward,<br>Jeered and scorned by sober men.<br>Would you smile upon him proudly-<br>Would you say, 'I did it,' then?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Ah! a vast and mighty number<br>Of the drunkards in all lands<br>Take the first step to destruction<br>Led by white and fragile hands.<br>Every smile you give the wine-cup,<br>Every glance, O lady fair!<br>Like a spade, digs down and hollows out<br>A drunkard's grave somewhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Men in office, men in power,<br>Will you let this demon wild<br>Stalk unfettered through the nation,<br>Slaying woman, man, and child?<br>Oh! arouse, ye listless mortals,<br>There is work for every one!<br>We have warned you of your danger-<br>We have spoken, we have done.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Round about me fell the silence<br>Of the solemn night once more,<br>And I heard the quiet ticking<br>Of the clock outside my door.<br>It was not a dreamer's fancy,<br>Not a romance of my brain,<br>But the warning of the victims<br>That old Alcohol had slain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q>
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And the grim and awful darkness
Crept unbidden to my room-
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