. "Blasts" from The Ram's Horn. SOMETIMES watch from a busy storeThe people as they passDiminish and expand beforeA wry-faced window glass. They hasten on their sober ways,And none among them knowsWhat acrobatic pranks and playsHis image undergoes. And I am always saddenedWhen this travesty 1 see,It brings a grievous fault of menSo forcibly to me. When men discard the lens of loverAnd look through prejudice;They see the man theyre thinking ofDistorted much like this And thus am I misunderstood;What wonder 1 am sad!The very acts I mean for goodThey misconstrue as bad But some there be who under
. "Blasts" from The Ram's Horn. SOMETIMES watch from a busy storeThe people as they passDiminish and expand beforeA wry-faced window glass. They hasten on their sober ways,And none among them knowsWhat acrobatic pranks and playsHis image undergoes. And I am always saddenedWhen this travesty 1 see,It brings a grievous fault of menSo forcibly to me. When men discard the lens of loverAnd look through prejudice;They see the man theyre thinking ofDistorted much like this And thus am I misunderstood;What wonder 1 am sad!The very acts I mean for goodThey misconstrue as bad But some there be who understandRare prophets, vision-eyed;With these I labor hand in hand,Or suffer side by THE TRAIL OF HE SALOON is the devils gives the devil noelbow room. The devil knows that thecrucifix is not the cross. A lie is the devils attemptto counterfeit truth. The devils mail bag—agossipers devil has a mortgage on every boywho smokes. The weakest saint on his knees is toostrong for the devil. <£r Who works for himself works for thedevil. Before the devil can be chained the sa-loon door must be shut. The devil fears the prayer that is learnedat a mothers knee. The devil probably dressed in white onthe day the cigaret was invented. The wiliest move of the devil is to per-suade men that there is no devil. The devil is not worrying over thepreacher who puts more rhetoric thanChristianity into his sermons. Blasts From The Rams Horn. 49 TEST IT AND SEE.
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