They Poured the Red Libation Forth
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The Unionist 1833-08-08
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Transcription
From the New-York Com. Adv.
“THEY POURED THE RED LIBATION FORTH.”
They pour’d the red libation forth,
And fill’d the golden bowl;
I dash’d it on the famish’d earth,
And spurn’d its base control.
And said—no more my peace shall be,
A victim to thy treachery!
They wove of Fame the blooming wreath,
My brow the chaplet twined;
My feet I trod the flowers beneath,
And gave them to the wind;
And said, my heart no more shall trust
To that which is itself but dust!
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The Temperance cause was understood by its advocates as a form of self-control.
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