<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391825" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Save the Boys</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like Dives in the deeps of Hell<br>I cannot break this fearful spell,<br>Nor quench the fires I've madly nursed,<br>Nor cool this dreadful raging thirst.<br>Take back your pledge--ye come too late!<br>Ye cannot save me from my fate,<br>Nor bring me back departed joys;<br>But ye can try to save the boys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye bid me break my fiery chain,<br>Arise and be a man again,<br>When every street with snares is spread,<br>And nets of sin where'er I tread.<br>No; I must reap as I did sow.<br>The seeds of sin bring crops of woe;<br>But with my latest breath I'll crave<br>That ye will try the boys to save.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These bloodshot eyes were once so bright;<br>This sin-crushed heart was glad and light;<br>But by the wine-cup's ruddy glow<br>I traced a path to shame and woe.<br>A captive to my galling chain,<br>I've tried to rise, but tried in vain­ -<br>The cup allures and then destroys.<br>Oh! from its thraldom save the boys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take from your streets those traps of hell<br>Into whose gilded snares I fell.<br>Oh! freemen, from these foul decoys<br>Arise, and vote to save the boys.<br>Oh ye who license men to trade<br>In draughts that charm and then degrade,<br>Before ye hear the cry, Too late,<br>Oh, save the boys from my sad fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Ellen+Watkins+Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391825" data-title="Save the Boys de Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" data-description="Like Dives in the deeps of Hell I cannot break this fearful spell, Nor quench the fires I've madly nursed, Nor cool this dreadful raging thirst. Take back your pledge--ye come too late! Ye cannot save me from my fate, Nor bring me back departed jo..."></div> </div> </div>

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