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At Pity's call, at Sorrow's sigh,
Pour forth her heaven-taught sympathy,
Her image in its grace restore,
Print on thy brow the smile she wore,
Bear, as she bore, a Saviour's name,—
What higher wish can Friendship frame?




Intemperance.


I saw a little girl
    With half uncover'd form,
And wonder'd why she wander'd thus,
    Amid the winter storm;
They said her mother drank
    What took her sense away,
And so she let her children go
    Hungry and cold all day.

I saw them lead a man
    To prison for his crime,