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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384718" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Theory And Practice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man of God stands, on the Sabbath-day,<br>Warning the sinners from the broad highway<br>That leads to death. He rolls his pious eye,<br>And tells how wily demons hidden lie<br>To spring upon the thoughtless souls who pass<br>Along. He lifts his hands, and cries, 'Alas!<br>That such things be! O sinners! pause;<br>Gird on God's armor; let the devil see<br>Thou hast espoused a high and holy cause,<br>And all his arts are powerless on thee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Tis thus the man of God in warning cries,<br>And tears of heart-felt sorrow fill his eyes;<br>And then he doffs his surplice and his gown,<br>And calls for wine to wash his sorrow down.<br>Ah! follower of the meek and lowly One,<br>And is it thus that thou wouldst have men shun<br>The road to death? Is this the better way,<br>Of which thou tellest on the Sabbath-day?<br>This wine you sip to quench your pious thirst,<br>Of all the devil's arts, he reckons first.<br>And countless legions go down to the dead,<br>Slain soul and body by the demon red.<br>Is this the holy principle you teach?<br>Or shall men practise, while you only preach?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The righteous churchman reads a tale of strife,<br>One of those countless tragedies of city life;<br>He sighs, and shakes his head, and sighs again,<br>And thanks his God he's not as other men.<br>And then he sips his glass of ale or rum,<br>And wonders if the time shall ever come<br>When such things cease to be. I answer, 'When<br>You who bear the names of Christian men<br>Shall with your wines, and ales, and beers dispense,<br>And choose the motto, 'Total Abstinence.''</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The politician sighs at the nation's debt,<br>And groans at his heavy tax. And yet<br>He calls his jolly friends from near and far,<br>And does not sigh or groan before the bar,<br>But 'treats' them with a free and lavish hand,<br>Thus swelling the liquor tax upon the land.<br>And so the world goes; and will always go<br>As long as fools live. And their lives are long,<br>As all may see who look around, and so<br>I'll let it waggle on, and cease my song,<br>Hoping 'gainst hope, that some poor struggling ray<br>Of common sense may find its weary way<br>Into the stupid hearts and brains of those<br>Who prate of any evil this world knows,<br>And sip their wines and beer, and say to men,<br>'We only drink a little-now and then.'</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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Warning the sinners from the broad highway
That leads to death. He rolls his pious eye,
And tells how wily demons hidden lie
To spring upon the thoughtless souls who pass
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