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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539556" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All hail to Mr Murphy, he is a hero brave,<br>That has crossed the mighty Atlantic wave,<br>For what purpose let me pause and think-<br>I answer, to warn the people not to taste strong drink. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, I'm sure, if they take his advice, they never will rue<br>The day they joined the Blue Ribbon Army in the year 1882;<br>And I hope to their colours they will always prove true,<br>And shout, Hurrah ! for Mr Murphy and the Ribbon of Blue. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is strong drink? Let me think-- I answer 'tis a thing<br>From whence the majority of evils spring,<br>And causes many a fireside with boisterous talk to ring,<br>And leaves behind it a deadly sting. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some people do say it is good when taken in moderation,<br>But, when taken to excess, it leads to tribulation,<br>Also to starvation and loss of reputation,<br>Likewise your eternal soul's damnation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The drunkard, he says he can't give it up,<br>For I must confess temptation's in the cup;<br>But he wishes to God it was banished from the land,<br>While he holds the cup in his trembling hand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he exclaims in the agony of his soul --<br>Oh, God, I cannot myself control<br>From this most accurs'd cup!<br>Oh, help me, God, to give it up! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strong drink to the body can do no good;<br>It defiles the blood, likewise the food,<br>And causes the drunkard with pain to groan,<br>Because it extracts the marrow from the bone: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And hastens him on to a premature grave,<br>Because to the cup he is bound a slave;<br>For the temptation is hard to thole,<br>And by it he will lose his immortal soul. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The more's the pity, I must say,<br>That so many men and women are by it led astray,<br>And decoyed from the paths of virtue and led on to vice<br>By drinking too much alcohol and acting unwise. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good people all, of every degree,<br>I pray, ye all be warned by me:<br>I advise ye all to pause and think,<br>And never more to taste strong drink. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because the drunkard shall never inherit the kingdom of God<br>And whosoever God loves he chastens with his rod:<br>Therefore, be warned, and think in time,<br>And don't drink any more whisky, rum, or wine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But go at once-- make no delay,<br>And join the Blue Ribbon Army without dismay,<br>And rally round Mr Murphy, and make a bold stand,<br>And help to drive the Bane of Society from our land. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish Mr Murphy every success,<br>Hoping he will make rapid progress;<br>And to the Blue Ribbon Army may he always prove true,<br>And adhere to his colours-- the beautiful blue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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For what purpose let me pause and think-
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