Man Know Thy-self


Know this and be assured quite well,

All evil comes when man hath fell.

Fell from purity, in grief,

To eat the vile tobacco leaf.

Know this my friend, a poisoned brain,

Can not a poisoned thought refrain.

A heart that beats with poisoned pulse;

Will any moral mind convulse.

Alcohol and Tobacco food,

To feed the mind with, is not good.

It causes one when e're he speaks,

To imitate the weeds and snakes.

And thus his poison he'll impart

From mind to mind from heart to heart.

When your mind is clean and pure,

More hardships you can then endure;

Then see the manly moral tone

Of an intellect full grown.



J. J. Cranmer.



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