And I prays as I’ll follow Flo up to her ’ome ’o light.
For as that child forgave me, I believes by and by
As He’ll forgive me too, sir, who came for sinners to die.
So little Flo’s life warn’t lost, she showed me the way to live;
She showed me what goodness meant, the way that a girl can forgive.
When I am tempted to drink, I thinks o’ the last words o’ Flo,
“He couldn’t be let into ’eaven if he was drunk, you know.”
Magnum Bonum.
The Coster’s Plea.