The party’s loss is my greatest dread;

Then gave his vote for the liquor trade,

Though hearts were crushed and drunkards made.

It was something to him in after life,

When his daughter became a drunkard’s wife

And her hungry children cried for bread,

And trembled to hear their father’s tread.

Is it nothing for us to idly sleep

While the cohorts of death their vigils keep?

To gather the young and thoughtless in,