<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=574880" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Temperance Hymn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">God of our fathers! Thee we praise;<br>To-day, our grateful thanks ascend:<br>Accept these thanks-our cheerful lays<br>With organ's solemn chantings blend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Thy grace the wretched drunkard found<br>Cast out, and weltering in his blood;<br>Now from his tongue doth praise resound-<br>He owes that praise to thee, O God!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Restored to virtue by thy hand,<br>The father, brother, son, arise;<br>From sin and wo reclaimed, they stand,<br>And swell thy praise with tearful eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The mother, sister, daughter, too,<br>With tears of gratitude and praise,<br>Behold the change, and now, anew,<br>Receive their friends to their embrace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>No longer poverty and shame-<br>A sad inheritance-are theirs;<br>Their altered looks aloud proclaim<br>A happy change in their affairs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Thanks, thanks, to thee, O God, we give!<br>What better tribute can we pay?<br>'T is on thy bounties that we live;-<br>We praise thee for this festal day!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Pierpont">John Pierpont</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=574880" data-title="Temperance Hymn de John Pierpont" data-description="God of our fathers! Thee we praise; To-day, our grateful thanks ascend: Accept these thanks-our cheerful lays With organ's solemn chantings blend. Thy grace the wretched drunkard found Cast out, and weltering in his blood; Now from his tongue do..."></div> </div> </div>

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