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THE PRAISE OF WATER. 
 
 Part I. 
 
 Thr ipirit tortured from tlie vine 
 
 Creates insatiate desire ; 
 But water, Nature's choice and mine, 
 
 Cools, quenches thirst's consuming fire. 
 
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 This, fresh from Heaven's creative hand. 
 Descends profusely from the sky, ' 
 
 To fertilize the barren land. 
 
 And yield the world a rich sttpplyj 
 
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 The native of the torrid cone, 
 
 The dweller in the Arctic drear. 
 
 Require this beverage alone. 
 
 And duly prize its simple cheer. 
 
 4. 
 
 The traveller on the desart waste 
 
 Athirst and worn, imagines this 
 As grateful to his eager taste 
 
 As nectar to the sons of bliss. 
 
 I. 
 
 They know not what it is to lack 
 
 One iiitio moment's joy uf breast ; 
 
 But he is Uught that want's fierce rack 
 But heightens satisfaction's lest. 
 
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THE PRAISK OF WATJCR. 
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 ■ The product offhoHery art 
 
 W'«»I,| n.ock l.im n<. the mirn^ there, 
 i'our hot Siroccos on his heart, 
 
 And drive him to untold despair. 
 7. 
 But one sweet .Iraught from .ornc lone sprinif. 
 Oer which the enoUmg north wind blows, ' 
 Would recompense hi. toil, and bring 
 A kind oblivion of his woes. 
 
 8. 
 TJie warrior weary from the field. 
 
 Where Freedoms battle hath been won 
 Would fainly quit his post, and yield 
 
 To streams that laugh beneath the sun, 
 
 0. 
 So pants the heart for Judah's streams 
 
 Rejoicing in their mountain course. 
 So longs the pilgrim, tired of dreams, 
 
 To drink at Joys eternal source. 
 
 10. 
 Tho voyager on the pathless deep 
 
 Enduring shipwreck's fearful ills, 
 Is wild with his desire to steep 
 
 His mad thirst in his native rills. 
 
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 Poor wretch !-by what fell demons bound- 
 By what tormenting anguish wrung- 
 
 With water, water all around. 
 
 But not a drop to cool his tongue ! 
 12. 
 
 Kind Heaven ! amend hi. piteous ca«, 
 
 ^V'th timely showers, with bi«.,es Wand • 
 And wall him to a succouring race, 
 
 Hi> native shore and household band. 
 
 
THK PRAIIB or WATKR. 
 
 Part II. 
 Ah ! water ii a preciom boon ; 
 
 For Nature ao requirci ita kiM 
 Tliat morning cannot wait for nmjii, 
 
 Nor noon for night to ahare ita bliaa. 
 8. 
 A precioua boon to man and beaat, 
 
 Fowl, inaect, every form of life ; 
 Still heightuning Plenty 'a luicioua feaat, 
 
 Or leaaening Famino'a i^anul atrifc. 
 
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 It yields whatever thirxta, a I'ower 
 
 Of exquiaite enjoy ment—yielda 
 Fresh beauty to the rich m&n'a bower,— 
 
 Freah vigour to the poor inan'a ficlda. 
 
 4. 
 
 Thft poor man hath a king'a dftiight, 
 
 When Meaven descenda in geniiil rain. 
 
 To call hia labours into sight, 
 
 And bleaa him in hia waving grain. 
 
 5. 
 
 Our own Acadia'a err,' Hem dear, 
 
 Spring'^8 earliest g.^^. to merry May, 
 
 Receivea full many an April tear, 
 Before it blooma beaide our way. 
 
 Acadia, country of my birth. 
 
 Thy streams may not be known to Fame, 
 £ut those who love thee feel thy worth 
 
 In all that human hearts can claim. 
 
 7. 
 
 dlad rivcra course thy fertile valea. 
 
 Bright iakea refreih thy verdant hiils, 
 
 JBrooks sing to brooka along thy dales, 
 
 Where cool springs foater rippling rills. 
 
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TBI PMAIIt or WATIK. 
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 • We lack not water-bat we thirit 
 
 For ll,o«, .weet .tre.ro. th.t fill the mind- 
 Tor that deep Fo.int ordained to bur.t 
 The n»entaJ yearning, of mwikind. 
 
 9. 
 Ah ! knowledge i. a preciou. boon ; 
 
 For Thought, our AngrI, ho. de.ire. 
 Which cannot be .upplied too .oon 
 
 With that which feed, her gloriou. fire.. 
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 I'ure Woter !-ovea the name i. bli.. ! 
 
 lanthc, bring the draught 1 crave. 
 That 1 may catch iu .mile, and kisa 
 
 The cooling chry.tal of it. ware. 
 
 What marvel Ujat the Hebrew Chief 
 
 Who felt .trongtJ»ir.t',oon.t,aining .pel/. 
 And .ought kind nature", .weet relief, 
 Dcired it fre.h from Bethlehem'.* well. 
 
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 What marvel that the .ick moo .igh. 
 
 To taste the dear, deliciou. draught, 
 Which Love, even while .he weep., denie.. 
 Lest death, ip.tead of hope, be quaffeiL 
 4. 
 Cold water hath a calm controul- 
 A wnra of good without alloy ; 
 Cold water to a thirsty Mai 
 
 I- life waewed, and winged with joj. 
 
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 The minstrel love, iu peaceful .way, 
 
 For it ha. vu-tue. which in.pire 
 The grateful laudatory loy 
 
 That now employ, hi. youthful lyw. 
 
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 THC PRAim or WATRa 
 
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 He tovei it for Its ht'iivpnly birth, 
 III lilceneM to immortal youth, 
 
 Its great, though unpretuming worth, 
 Ita innate and essential truth. 
 
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 U Brethren, when its simple cheer 
 Incites the weary heart to sing, 
 
 QIad thought should seek her native sphere^ 
 And drink at pleasure's primal Bpring. 
 
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 Pure precious gift, who hath not seen 
 Its glory in the rainbow's hues, 
 
 And in the sparkling diamond sheen 
 RefVacted fVom a thousand dews ! 
 
 It takes unnumbered, wondrous forms— 
 Now floats in mist along the -rale- - 
 
 Now soars in clouds — now Ml* in storms 
 Of rain, and snow, and sleet, and hai). 
 
 10. 
 Now, forced by man's aroh-agent flrc, 
 
 It rises into giant Steam, 
 Takes mighty wings that never tire, 
 
 And measures distance as a dream. 
 
 PlRT IV. 
 How sweet to bathe the burning cheek, 
 
 And cool the fever of the brain, 
 In some glad stream that seems to speak 
 
 Of buoyant health to evtry vein ! 
 
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 Kow sweet to see it glance along 
 In Buulit radiance io lis nsi. 
 
 To listen to its murmured song 
 
 When eve is mirrored on its breast :— 
 
 
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 TH« Pa4l«« OF WATBH. 
 
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 To .tray with Beauty where it .traya 
 
 Charmed by the voice of Rapture', Dove 
 
 And mark her bl^e orb. glad with ray. 
 
 That own the power of first, fond Love. 
 
 4. 
 The drunkard cannot prize it. kis., 
 
 It. pleasant .mile-iu cheerful .ong ; 
 For .inle.. nature veil, her bliss 
 
 From him that work. hi. .piril wrong. 
 
 5. 
 
 He, lost to life', inherent zest— 
 
 To Beauty, .way. to Rapture's tone, • 
 Defies her effort, to invest 
 
 Hi. heart with that which move, her own. 
 
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 He boasts the privilege to be- 
 But, ah ! respire, but to de.lroy ; 
 
 For but the virtuou. and the free 
 Can tou«h the tali.man. of joy. 
 
 7. 
 
 He hears n« passing angel's wmgs- 
 
 No voice up-breathiug from the .od,_ 
 He looks not on created things , . 
 As feature, of AU-gloriou. God"! '^' ' 
 8. 
 Hi. i. the «' brute unconscious gaze" 
 
 The swine-like wallowing i„ the mire- 
 The vitiation which ob^. 
 
 The tyrant call of low de.ire. 
 
 Can he fulfil a .pirit'. lot- 
 He renrf>aon4 ♦!— r<4 . ... , 
 
 ■ -.n-. jatcmai 5iind .'' 
 
 He is himself a moral blpt— 
 
 The .liame and gorrow of hi. kind .' 
 
 
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 The charities that banish strife — 
 
 The Biniles that bid unrest depart^ ' 
 
 The harmonies of loving life — 
 
 Possess no hold upon his heart. 
 
 11. 
 
 His kindred ! — must we raise the veil 
 
 To let his fcUow-men behold 
 That mournful mother weak and pale, 
 
 Those children hungry- 'vgged — cold f 
 
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 O who can tell the weary strife— 
 
 The hopeless conflict with despair — 
 
 The burthen of the death in lifa— 
 
 Which they, the unprotected, bear ! 
 
 13. 
 
 Sweet Mercy ! — would that they were freo 
 From that mad being's tyrant sway : 
 
 More widowed than a widow she- 
 More orphaned than if orphans they. 
 
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 Wronged woman ! thou mayst waste and di« 
 The victim of a broken trust ! 
 
 Wronged offspring ! ye may Vainly sigh 
 To prove a father fond and just ! 
 
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 His step was music that was dear, 
 
 When he was kind and hope waa high. 
 
 But now ye shrink from it in fear, 
 
 And dread to meet his " evil eye." 
 
 16. 
 
 BiU, ah ! how changed his human rosee— 
 How chill and strange its warmest tone ! 
 
 Besotted wretch ! is this thy choice— 
 
 This dark transforming act thin* own f 
 
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 THB PRAISE or WATER. 
 17. 
 
 I need not ask— for trath hut said 
 
 That Hell, how black soe'er its will, 
 
 Contains no demon half so dread, 
 Or half so capable of ill. 
 
 18. 
 
 The minstrel, having sung thus far, 
 
 Would fainly leave the drunkard here, 
 Were he not found a baleful star 
 
 To aU that breathe within his sphere. 
 19. 
 Our song would grow prolix to tell 
 
 How. his example spreads his vice ; 
 His followers know its power too well- 
 Their dark experience should suffice. 
 
 The temperate would conclode that none 
 Could countenance so vile a course, 
 
 Because his reason bids him shun 
 Its specious wiles and sjrren force. 
 
 21. 
 
 But as the sinful were the pure. 
 
 And but the free can bow to thrall. 
 
 Let those that think themselves secure. 
 Regard their standing lest they fall. 
 
 Tor ah ! the Circe of the bowl 
 
 Beguiles in so occult a way. 
 That men are fast in her controul 
 
 Ere hardly conscious of her sway. 
 
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 Enough :-retam we to the curse 
 
 With whiw, the drunkard blasts his own; 
 To subjects painful to rehearse— 
 
 To iH» deplored wherever^ known. 
 
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 THE PRAISE OF WATE». 
 
 34. 
 
 The drunkard is a baleful stor 
 
 To all that breathe within his sphere ; 
 He lives for nothing but to mar 
 
 Whatever love considers dear. 
 
 35. 
 
 He aggravates his mother's cares, 
 
 And mocks affection's fondest trust ; • 
 
 He brings his father's hoary hairs 
 In silent sorrow to the dust. 
 
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 His brothers, loved in life's young day. 
 Confess not now his birthright ties, 
 
 But pass him in the public way .. * 
 
 With burning cheeks and tearful eyes. 
 
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 His sisters— utter not the name 
 
 Which they, the good most blush to hear> 
 It has become a word of shame 
 
 To all to whom it should be dear. 
 
 28. 
 
 His friends— the drunkard has no friends- 
 Such cannot breathe in tainted air : 
 
 Howe'er his course began, it tends 
 To isolation, doubt, despair. 
 29. 
 
 Poor erring man ! who would not weep 
 To see him quaff the infernal spell 
 
 That wings him downward to the steep 
 That trembles o'er the brink of Hell ! 
 
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 Who would not fly with timely haste 
 To slup iitiit ia his strange career, 
 
 And bring him back to be replaced 
 
 In life and love's protecting splier^I 
 
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 '^'. 31. 
 
 OFriendi! OChristiani! having ahowi, 
 That fearing God, ye love your kind 
 
 Restore the drunkard to his own- 
 Restore him to the>an— the mind. 
 
 God spares him that he may repent- 
 That ye may take him by the liand, 
 
 And woo him from his evil bent 
 
 To strengthen Virtue's happy band. 
 
 33. 
 
 Go seek him when the fiend has fled— 
 When Reason reasserts her away, 
 
 That ye may raise him from the dead 
 To walk in Wisdom's pleasant way. 
 
 34. 
 
 Go bid him hope— he needs your aid 
 
 Your effort to support your own- 
 Yet bear him to his God, afraid 
 To trust to human means alone. 
 
 So shall ye save a soul from death 
 And hide a multitude of sins— 
 So win the zeal-sustaining breath 
 
 Of that high praise that still begins. 
 36. 
 Pleased heaven shall shed her gentle light, 
 ' In peaceful halos round your heads— 
 And angel-guardians of the night 
 
 Bring sweetest sleep to bless your bods. 
 
 37. 
 Whilst where the savage drunkard frowned, 
 
 And Fatnino wat.n.1 u: I.. .. 
 
 .._T- -, .ita vujiuro vvinff. 
 
 Contenting Plenty shall be found, 
 
 And those that sorrowed learn to sing. 
 
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 TBI PRAiaS or WATKH. 
 
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 His wife, who watched for him in fear. 
 
 While anguish gnawed her matron brwaat, 
 
 Shall f mile beside her evening cheer, 
 
 And welcome home her husband guest, 
 
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 His little ones shall run to greet 
 
 The father they were taught to flee, 
 
 Inspire him with endearments sweet, 
 And prattle on his parent knee. 
 
 40. 
 His hoary sire shall bless his son— 
 
 His mother clasp her blessed boy— 
 Jiis sire's pleased household every one, 
 
 And even the stranger share the joy. 
 
 Part V. 
 
 Pure Water, who so cold of heart 
 As not to crave the gentle spell 
 
 The peaceful pulse which thou canst start 
 In human feeling's gushing well. 
 
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 What makes that maiden brow so bright, 
 Those lips and cheeks so sweetly fair ? 
 
 What fills those eyes with joyous light? 
 Pure water— temperance— sun and air. 
 
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 Pure water ! were the world confined 
 
 To thy sweet influence alone, 
 What ills would cease to vex mankind— 
 
 What powers of darkness be o'erthrown f 
 
 4. 
 
 Pure water ! I would turn from wine 
 With all its fabled dream of bliss, 
 
 To prove the enjoyment half divine 
 That greets thy lovers in thy kiss. 
 
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 IB rum »BAisK or water. 
 
 5. 
 
 Pure water ! I rejoice to hear 
 
 T^iy low tweet murmors in my dreami, 
 For they have wingrg with which I near 
 
 The miuic of the Eternal ttreamt. 
 
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 Twice, man, when thou didst fail to find 
 
 This bleiBiag which waa made ao free, 
 The bounteous AlI-proTiding Mikd 
 
 Directed it to come to thee. 
 
 7. 
 
 When Hagar watched her famished child, 
 An angel showed a founUin nigh ; 
 
 When Israel thirsted in the wild, 
 A rock gave out the sweet supply. 
 
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 But miracles as great as these 
 
 Are constantly around us wrought, 
 
 And good prorided for our ease 
 
 By ways for which we take not thought. 
 9. 
 
 For He, who gave the soul her dower, 
 And taught her to revere her trust, 
 
 Creates new mercies every hour- 
 New forms of life from slumbering dust. 
 
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 The rock still changes to a spring— 
 
 The desert still has bread and quails,— 
 
 The living still look up and sing, 
 Became ])is goodness never fails, 
 
 11. 
 
 Then, why abuse His gifts, and toil 
 To work ourselven and others ill ; 
 
 £nough the bounty of the soil 
 The largess of the crystal rill.